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Cambyses smiled self-complacently, and Onuphis went on: "I have read in the stars too, that Psamtik's ruin and your own accession to the throne of Egypt have been fore-ordained." "We'll show that the stars were right," cried the king, "and as for you, you liberal old fellow, I command you to ask me any wish you like." "Give me a conveyance, and let me follow your army to Egypt.
Either your foresight is nothing or the evil must come." "That is so," answered Freydisa. "From your childhood up you had the gift of reason which is more than is granted to most of these fools about us. Go, Olaf, and meet your fore-ordained evil. Still, kiss me before you go lest we should not see each other again for a while. If the bear kills you, at least you will be saved from Iduna."
They are suited to each other." "Yes they're the carrying-on sort, Aunt Dorrie"; Joan looked wise and confident. "They're like their kind Nan is like you. Away back in the Dondale days she used to gloat over all that went to your making, all your grandfathers and grandmothers. She was fore-ordained to carry on, and so was Ken. They'd be done for on paths without signboards. Aunt Dorrie "
I have already mentioned, I think, how Mr. Pupkin and Zena Pepperleigh first came to know one another. Like everything else about them, it was a sheer matter of coincidence, quite inexplicable unless you understand that these things are fore-ordained. That, of course, is the way with fore-ordained affairs and that's where they differ from ordinary love. I won't even try to describe how Mr.
We are dapper little busybodies, and run this way and that way superserviceably; but they swerve never from their fore-ordained paths, neither the sun, nor the moon, nor a bubble of air, nor a mote of dust. And as our handiworks borrow the elements, so all our social and political action leans on principles. To accomplish anything excellent, the will must work for catholic and universal ends.
"Doby an' Billy lives on for a year after 'Doby plugs Billy in the laig, keepin' wide apart an' not speakin'. Willyum is got so he puts in most of his nights an' all of his days with Billy; which the spectacle of Billy packin' Willyum about camp nights is frequent. 'Doby never 'pears to file no protest; I reckons he looks on it as a fore-ordained an' hopeless play.
And though, being men, with the long animal inheritance of men behind them, their passions may be roused by any cry of battle, though they are the fore-ordained dupes of those who direct the policy of nations, yet it is not their initiative that originates wars. They do not desire conquest, they do not trouble about "race" or chatter about the "survival of the fittest."
Cambyses smiled self-complacently, and Onuphis went on: "I have read in the stars too, that Psamtik's ruin and your own accession to the throne of Egypt have been fore-ordained." "We'll show that the stars were right," cried the king, "and as for you, you liberal old fellow, I command you to ask me any wish you like." "Give me a conveyance, and let me follow your army to Egypt.
Anything to further this fore-ordained activity was good; anything else was bad. These thoughts, aided by a disposition naturally fervent and single in purpose, hereditarily ascetic and conscientious for his mother was of old New England stock gave to him in the course of six years' striving a sort of daily and familiar religion to which he conformed his life. Success, success, success.
She, that sad, broken, little temptress, was going to meet the fore-ordained future that lay before. There was nothing else left for her to do. All her reserves were taken. Then Gaston, when all was beyond his power of recall or desire, opened the window. Softly, sweetly, the fresh morning air entered. It was a young and good morning.
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