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There is an account of their trial in the State Trials, of some interest to lawyers; it resulted in the execution of Don Pantaleon Sa and four of his servants. By one of those curious fateful coincidences, with which fact often outbids fiction, Mr.
"That's Whittington! What was the other man like?" "I can't remember. I didn't notice him particularly. It was really the outlandish name that caught my attention." "And people say that coincidences don't happen!" Tuppence tackled her Peche Melba happily. But Tommy had become serious. "Look here, Tuppence, old girl, what is this going to lead to?" "More money," replied his companion.
Meigs has elsewhere invoked "Providence" as the alternative of accident, to account for the "coincidences." If through such causes, let us find out what they are, as we try to do in other cases. It may be true that offences, or diseases, will come, but "woe unto him through whom they come," if we catch him in the voluntary or careless act of bringing them!
There are periods in which all places and people seem to be in a conspiracy to impress us with their individuality, in which every ordinary locality seems to assume a special significance and to claim a particular notice, in which every person we meet is either an old acquaintance or a character; days in which the strangest coincidences are continually happening, so that they get to be the rule, and not the exception.
The assurance with which these writers undertook by internal evidence to decompose ancient documents, assigning each paragraph to an independent source; the decisive weight they were accustomed to give to slight improbabilities or coincidences, and to small variations of style and phraseology; the confidence with which they put forward solutions or conjectures which, however ingenious or plausible, were based on no external evidence as if they were proved facts, appeared to him profoundly unhistorical.
So explained Jane Parsons, and Simon Watts had listened; he wished for a few moments that he had known about this money a little sooner, and then, seeing that there seemed no help for it, as the children were being moved absolutely out of his reach, had dismissed the matter from his mind. But, see! how strange are the coincidences of life!
"Strange!" said Trench, in open-mouthed surprise, "I've often heard of coincidences, but I never did see or hear of the like of that." "All three to hit it at once!" exclaimed Paul. "Ay, and all three of us doin' our best to hit it, too," exclaimed Oliver. "Just so that's the puzzle, lad," rejoined the captain.
Many strange and curious coincidences have occurred to me during my life. Two days before the Drake was ready for sea, having failed to gain any tidings of Peter, I was standing on the quay work being over in the evening, with my hands in my pockets, just taking a look at my future home, when I observed a boat-load of men landing from a sloop which had lately brought up in the river.
My real animus was due to the fact that he had managed to shake my self-confidence, to take the flavour out of my achievements, a flavour that was in the course of an hour to be completely restored by one of those interesting coincidences occasionally occurring in life.
Her meeting Cousin Ann on the way was merely one of those unpleasant coincidences with which life is filled, although it is hardly possible, usually, for two such disagreeable persons to be on the same small spot at the same precise moment. On the third morning after the Careys' arrival, however, matters assumed a more hopeful attitude, for Cousin Ann became discontented with Beulah.
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