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Burrell says it was his mother's engagement ring; but, then, gems are all second-hand a hundred-hand a thousand-hand for that." "Burrell! You take my breath away! Burrell! The man who has a bank in Threadneedle Street?" "The same." "Good gracious, Elizabeth! You have made all our fortunes! You noble girl! I did not know he was thinking of you." "He was waiting for me. Destiny, Roland.
But a new opportunity presented itself; his imagination caught fire, and he foresaw a fortune, an assured fortune which nothing could take from him, and once again he laughed his deep, sonorous, powerful laugh, defying destiny.
The divine sanction was expressed by President Wilson in his address to the Senate on July 10, 1919. The President discussed the Peace Treaty in some of its aspects and then said, "It is thus that a new responsibility has come to this great nation that we honor and that we would all wish to lift to yet higher service and achievement. The stage is set, the destiny disclosed.
The orders of the cadi having been obeyed, the officers were severally called forward, and having proved themselves regularly appointed, received their rewards, and were dismissed. Yussuf's ideas were so confused by what appeared to him such an unmitigated destiny, that he did not perceive that he was left standing alone.
I must now return to Miss Alethea Pontifex, of whom I have said perhaps too little hitherto, considering how great her influence upon my hero's destiny proved to be. On the death of her father, which happened when she was about thirty-two years old, she parted company with her sisters, between whom and herself there had been little sympathy, and came up to London.
If God did not intend that this delicious page should ever be written in the book of her destiny, and she was forced to marry her daughter to another, the poor woman consoled herself with the thought that all the cares she lavished upon her would not be lost, and that her dear child would thus be rendered better and happier.
If the destiny of woman is a problem that calls for grave attention even in our enlightened times, and if she is too often a sufferer from the inevitable movements of society, what must have been her position and needs in those ruder ages, unless the genius of Christianity had opened refuges for her weakness, made inviolable by the awful sanctions of religion?
A maiden leaving one stage of her life, with all its past treasures of affection and happiness, for ever behind her, and going forward, in loving hope and trust, no doubt, yet still in uncertainty of what the hidden future held in store for her of weal and woe, to meet her wifely destiny.
I have often heard her say so, and then add, 'After that they may kill me if they like, I don't care. Oh! that is indeed a terrible woman, you ought to see her." "A veritable Libussa!" cried Thomas rapturously. "If we win, a great destiny awaits her. Are you in love with her?" "Perhaps it is more correct to say she loves me. I am very comfortable with her, anyway.
The night was already far advanced, the heavens were luminous with all the host of stars. "I think," said the student, referring, in later life, to that crisis in his destiny, "I think it was then, as I stood alone, yet surrounded by worlds so numberless, that I first felt the distinction between mind and soul." "Tell me," said Riccabocca, as he parted company with Mr.
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