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Updated: May 14, 2025
Every physician of large experience must have seen cases of self-created, unresisted invalidism end with mysterious abruptness and the return of mental, moral and physical competence, under the influence of some call upon their sense of duty made by calamity, such as an acute illness in the household, financial ruin, or the death of a husband.
I tried to picture my own emotions as the truth was slowly borne in upon me that some unprecedented calamity had silently and without any premonition befallen the whole world of men. Would one crouch in a terror of apprehension? I could not see it that way. I believed that I should be trembling with a furious excitement, stirred to the very depths by so inspiring and adventurous a miracle.
"What is the matter, Marshall!" Marshall inquired if any one was within hearing, and began to peer about the room, and look under the bed, when Sutter, fearing that some calamity had befallen the party up at the saw-mill, and that Marshall was really crazy, began to make his way to the door, demanding of Marshall to explain what was the matter.
For it is well known that should the family cat fall to miauing on Christmas Eve, and especially while the supper is in progress, very dreadful things surely will happen to the family during the ensuing year. Fortunately Nanoun's preventive measures averted this calamity; yet were they like to have overshot their mark.
I sense a great calamity," said she. Just at that moment people were coming toward the church. Hans hurried up to them, to find out what was the trouble, while Marie waited. "Where have you been, that you don't know? Why, yonder in the market place the notice was read 'the Emperor is dead!" they cried. "The Emperor is dead?" There stood Hans, paralyzed. All his hopes seemed shattered.
Then she ended slowly and impressively: "Don't think I'm trying to court calamity, but I am certain that perky little newspaper woman, as she styles herself, is going to prove a thorn in your side. You had better write to Mabel and explain matters, then leave Miss Kathleen West alone.
Now if sickness, pain, and death, are not evils, we cannot understand why it should be an evil that thousands should rise without knowing how they are to subsist. The only evil of hunger is that it produces first pain, then sickness, and finally death. If it did not produce these, it would be no calamity. If these are not evils, it is no calamity.
I feel sure sometimes that we are all living on the brink of a great change for the better, and that there is only one thing wanting now a great calamity, or a great teacher to startle us out of our apathy and set us to work. We are not bold enough. We should try more experiments; they can but fail, and if they do, we should still have learnt something from them.
She was an extremely proud young sovereign, and never allowed caresses; yet she lingered by him, troubled, grave, with something intensely tender and pitiful in the musing look of her eyes. She had a perception that this calamity which smote him was one far beyond the ministering of her knowledge. He took the pretty Palais Royal gold-rimmed sweetmeat box, and slipped it into his waistcoat pocket.
What signify such trifling misfortunes, compared with that other calamity, which almost every family in the land may lament the loss of one or more of its members wife, daughter, sister, child borne off into hopeless bandage, to satisfy the will, or gratify the lust, of a merciless barbarian?" "A fearful state of affairs!" "Ay senor!
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