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Updated: May 4, 2025
Adam Warner was indeed a creature of remarkable genius, and genius, in an age where it is not appreciated, is the greatest curse the iron Fates can inflict on man.
"I had never hoped that the Fates would be so kind as to allow me to render a member of your family a slight service." "I understand that you saved my life the other day, Monsieur Deroulede. I know that I am still in peril and that I owe my safety to you..." "Do you also know that your brother owed his death to me?"
The next week's books of the Insolvent Fates, however, being not yet opened, there is the usual rush to the Veneerings, of the people who go to their house to dine with one another and not with them. There is Lady Tippins. There are Podsnap the Great, and Mrs Podsnap. There is Twemlow. There are Buffer, Boots, and Brewer. There is the Contractor, who is Providence to five hundred thousand men.
There, as the roar was being repeated amid horrid resounding echoes, the wise youth mused in this wise "'The Fates are Jews with us when they delay a punishment, says The Pilgrim's Scrip, or words to that effect. The heavens evidently love Benson, seeing that he gets his punishment on the spot. Master Ricky is a peppery young man. He gets it from the apt Gruffudh. I rather believe in race.
Certainly I am no judge of music, but to my ear the discord was terrific, to the ears of better informed amateurs it seemed ravishing. All were spellbound; even Mrs. Poyntz paused from her knitting, as the Fates paused from their web at the lyre of Orpheus. To this breathless delight, however, soon succeeded a general desire for movement.
Pindar plainly saith that there is no more thread, that is to say, no more life, spun from the distaff and flax of the hard-hearted Fates for the goddesses Hamadryades than there is for those trees that are preserved by them, which are good, sturdy, downright oaks; whence they derived their original, according to the opinion of Callimachus and Pausanias in Phoci.
It was a trap into which the most expert man would fall unless he was seriously protected by the fates, as was the good St. Peter by the Saviour when he prevented him going to the bottom of the sea the day when they had a fancy to try if the sea were as solid as terra firma.
Is it all true that they sing of Destiny and the Fates that whatever they spin for a man at his birth must inevitably come about? Zeus. Unquestionably. Nothing is independent of their control. From their spindle hangs the life of all created things; whose end is predetermined even from the moment of their birth; and that law knows no change. Cyn.
But wherefore it was that after having repeatedly smelt the sea as a merchant sailor, I should now take it into my head to go on a whaling voyage; this the invisible police officer of the Fates, who has the constant surveillance of me, and secretly dogs me, and influences me in some unaccountable way he can better answer than any one else.
Having laid the books on the table she retired, and left Bertram to studies which were not ill adapted to his present melancholy situation. But if thou shouldst be dragg'd in scorn To yonder ignominious tree, Thou shall not want one faithful friend To share the cruel fates' decree.
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