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"Are there no records on evidence, which most physicians of very extended practice will perhaps allow that their experience more or less tend to confirm no records of the singular coincidences between individual impressions which are produced by sympathy? Now, whether you or your Lilian were first haunted by this Shadow I know not.
By one of the frequent coincidences in the history of the sciences, hydrogen gas had been discovered six years previously by the great English physician Cavendish, and it had hardly even been tested in the laboratories of the chemists when it all at once became famous.
She didn't repose much faith in those striking synchronizations which apparently unrelated influences sometimes effect with related events, and which we are accustomed to term coincidences. She distrusted their specious seeming of spontaneity, she suspected a deep design behind them all.
The three coincidences I have chosen are: that between development of the æsthetic faculties and the development of the altruistic instincts; that between development of a sense of æsthetic harmony and a sense of the higher harmonies of universal life; and, before everything else, the coincidence between the preference for æsthetic pleasures and the nobler growth of the individual.
This triumphant reception, which I was far from expecting after what had happened just before my departure, after having been so badly treated by the Paris Press, after the incidents of my journey, which had been always badly interpreted by several French papers all these coincidences were of such different proportions that they seemed hardly credible.
"Um!" said Ramiro, "'a virgin's curse. Observe, friends, how the merest coincidences may give rise to superstition. Allow me," and, holding the dead man by one hand, he felt in his pockets with the other, till, with a smile of satisfaction, he found the purse containing the gold which he had paid him on the previous evening. "Oh! Elsa, Elsa," moaned Adrian.
"As to that," remarked the captain, with a serious, philosophical expression of countenance, "most things come to a climax suddenly, and coincidences invariably happen together; but, after all, it doesn't seem so strange to me, for vessels are setting sail for California every other day, and "
"But a mere coincidence." "Humph!" from Mrs. Parry. "Some folks make their own coincidences." "What do you mean, Mrs. Parry?" "Mean? Humph! I don't know if I should tell you." Giles was now on fire to learn her meaning. Evidently Mrs. Parry did know something, and might be able to help him.
"Is it for the sea voyage that you and your friend the Baron de Grost cross the Atlantic this particular week, on the same steamer as myself, as Mr. Sirdeller, and and the Duchesse? One does not believe in such coincidences! One is driven to conclude that it is your intention to interfere." "The affair almost demands our interference," Sogrange replied smoothly.
Ah! they did not either of them know that it was a spiritual fever and ague alternately burning and freezing her very heart's blood hope and fear, love and loathing, pity and horror, that striving together made a pandemonium of her young bosom. Like a flight of fiery arrows came the coincidences of the tale she had heard, and the facts she knew. That spring, eight years before, Mr.
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