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Updated: June 18, 2025
The nature of that steed is unmanifest. Its nature is exceedingly subtile. Kshanas, and Trutis, and Nimeshas are the hair on its body. The twilights constitute its shoulder joints. The lighted and the dark fortnights are its two eyes of equal power. Months are its other limbs. That steed is running incessantly.
I'd take him for ten fortnights. Heavens, what a relief it must be to get away from 'Aggie'!" And when Arthur got his brother's letter, he and Aggie were quite sorry that they had ever called him the Mammon of Unrighteousness. But the brother kept good company down in Kent. Aggie knew that, in the old abominable Queningford phrase, he was "in with the county."
"Well, old man, how about it?" "Steer a straight course for hell, old dear," came the muffled reply, as the bird twisted its head under its wing, then untucked it to murmur sleepily: "T'hell!" So she made up her mind to move on the very day after the girl's birthday, which fell in a fortnights time.
Meanwhile, the years, the seasons, the months, the fortnights, the days, and the nights, coming one after another, gradually despoil him of beauty and lessen the period allotted to him. These all are messengers of death. They, however, that are of little understanding know them not to be such. The wise say that all creatures are governed by the Ordainer through their acts.
I must laugh, it was so very droll." Then he flashed round on Bullard. "But listen, pig-hog, and I tell you the secret of the dreadful, fearful, terrible, awful green fluid! I know the secret, for I make it myself. It is a kind of fish what you call a cod understand? And I make it with the oil of castor and some nice colourings! Voila! I could laugh for weeks and fortnights, and "
They who abstain from flesh by either months or fortnights at a stretch have the region of Brahma ordained for them in consequence of their abstention from cruelty.
Similarly the incoming mail came in alternate fortnights to Bombay and Calcutta, and the arrival of the mail at Garden Reach, particularly in the cold weather when all the young ladies came out to be married, was always a great occasion. All Calcutta used to gather at the jetty at Garden Reach to see and welcome the new-comers.
But the visits did not often happen not enough to disturb seriously an existence crammed with interesting things like puppies and kittens, the pony cart, boats on the river that ran just beyond the lawn, occasional trips to London and the Zoo, and delirious fortnights at the seaside or on Devonshire moors. Cecilia had never known even Bobby's shadowy memories of their own mother.
Nothing for thou Nicholas and Mon Dieu! she does the family washing by her hands I know! mine look like that when I have taken one of my fortnights at the sea!" "You think it is washing? I was wondering ." "Does she take off her glasses ever, Nicholas?" "No perhaps she has weak light eyes. One never can tell!"
There were others who came to the hotel for short fortnights, impecunious young business men or lawyers who were looking about for suitable assistance in life. Such candidates were submitted to a close scrutiny, but nothing to warrant active measures had yet occurred. He had made up his mind precisely about his future son-in-law.
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