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"I am glad I heard it," said Burton, "for never was it more true than in my case that to be fore-warned is to be fore-armed. Two traps have been already laid this morning to get me away from the Salt Range, and I believe here is another," he said, as a coolie came at the trot with a telegram in his hand. "Come at once. Most serious. Mirkwort," read out Burton, as soon as the coolie had retired.
And I do not see any good reason you have for intimating that in the present case the right direction has not been taken." There was just perceptible a touch of indignation in the voice of Mrs. Markland, which, being perceived by Grace, brought the sententious remark, "Fore-warned, fore-armed. If my suspicion is baseless, no one is injured."
And," she continued, after a barely perceptible pause, "have no anxiety on my account; O'Gorman and his accomplices will not molest me if you will but conform to their wishes. And, if they should, I shall be prepared for them: `Fore-warned is fore-armed'!"
Whenever we speak of the virtue of providence, we assume that forewarned is fore-armed, To know the future is no virtue, but it is the greatest of virtues to prepare for it." But a large proportion of men do not provide for the future. They do not remember the past. They think only of the present. They preserve nothing. They spend all that they earn.
"I think you should hear" so it began, without any introductory phrase 'that the story you told me of what happened at Aix-les-Bains is known to men in this country who cannot be your friends, since they relate it in their own fashion at their clubs, and add their own ill-natured comments. Perhaps if you are forewarned you will be fore-armed. "Lettice Campion."
"It's only following out our motto, 'be prepared. You know there are a whole lot of sayings along that line, such as 'fore-warned is fore-armed, and as the old pilgrim fathers used to say: 'trust in the Lord; but, keep your powder dry! We want to keep our ammunition ready. But while you go back to the rest of the boys I'll take a sneak."
Who can tell whether the town would have escaped capture if its citizens had not been able to go barefoot? Let a man be always fore-armed against the unforeseen. Let Emile run about barefoot all the year round, upstairs, downstairs, and in the garden. Far from scolding him, I shall follow his example; only I shall be careful to remove any broken glass.
He had a rapid review of the situation with Sarrasin. 'What I don't see, he quietly said he knew too well to try whispering 'is why I should not keep to my own room. If anything is going to happen I am well forewarned, and shall be well fore-armed, and I shall be pretty well able to take care of myself; and why should anyone else run any risk on my account?
But you have my motive in coming here the desire to repay you; to look into the future of your son; to see the evils that may threaten his youth and manhood, and to place you on your guard against them. 'Forwarned is fore-armed, you know. Do not doubt my power. In far-off Oriental lands, under the golden stars of Syria, I learned the lore of the wise men of the East.
"Do you know, dear, I don't think I will," she said. "Please you must!" said Olga, with decision. "It concerns me as much as it does him." "I am not sure that it really concerns either of you," Daisy said. "It was just a piece of gossip which may or may not have had any foundation." "Still, tell me!" Olga insisted. "Forewarned is fore-armed, isn't it?
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