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After an exchange of careful courtesies I addressed myself to the dwarf. "Signor Aristarcho," I said, "this charitable young man has assured me of your active sympathy with my anxieties. You see before you a victim of fortune's extremest spite, who can sue for your favours with nothing but his tears " "Don't shed them," says he at the side of his mouth, "they are precious."
And when the sad reverses came, As come they may to all, Who stood a Hero, bold and true, Amid his fortune's fall? Who to the utmost yielded up What Honor could not keep, Then took the field of life again With courage calm and deep? Come! shout a gallant chorus, Until the glasses dance Here's health and luck to Barnum, The Napoleon of Finance
Others had attained to poverty by the same process, and had migrated to cheaper lodgings in blocks remote, expecting that a lucky turn of Fortune's wheel would bring them back to fashionable life next year, as it most likely would. The principal personages of this history had been radically affected by this lapse of time as will hereafter be shown with the single exception of Marcus Wilkeson.
Let Fortune's bubbles rise and fall; Who sows a field or trains a flower, Or plants a tree is more than all." Every schoolboy has read about the famous Washington elm of Cambridge. What a marvelous tree to think about and gaze upon! It is difficult to analyze your emotions while standing near this historic spot gazing at this famous tree.
It may not be generally known that the Council of Ten is really a council of seventeen, as the Doge has always a right to be present. I returned to Trieste determined to do my best for the Tribunal, for I longed to return to Venice after nineteen years' wanderings. I was then forty-nine, and I expected no more of Fortune's gifts, for the deity despises those of ripe age.
Aye, by cock, 'tis your fortune to find it and your fortune's my fortune, eh, Ben us being comrades, Ben? "'Aye, says Ben, turning the dagger this way and that. "'Ha' ye come on the chart, Ben, ha' ye found the luck in't Ben? "'Stay, Roger, I've but just picked it up "'And was coming to your comrade with it, eh, Ben share and share eh, Benno Bennie?
I suppose no doctor ever came newly to a place without making cures that surprised somebody cures which may be called fortune's testimonials, and deserve as much credit as the written or printed kind.
While William had thus been daily rising in fortune's favour, poor Agnes had been daily sinking deeper and deeper under fortune's frowns: till at last she became a midnight wanderer through the streets of London, soliciting, or rudely demanding, money of the passing stranger.
V. To thy unspotted shrine I bow: Attend thy modest suppliant's vow, That breathes no wild desires; But, taught by thy unerring rules, To shun the fruitless wish of fools, To nobler views aspires. VI. Not Fortune's gem, Ambition's plume, Nor Cytherea's fading bloom, Be objects of my prayer: Let av'rice, vanity, and pride, Those envy'd glitt'ring toys divide, The dull rewards of care.
"But what has brought you into town, Jim?" she suddenly asked, as though his presence had only just occurred to her as being unusual. With a rush the memory of all his disgrace came upon him again. He laughed bitterly, harshly. "Another of Dame Fortune's kicks," he said. "Another?" "Yes ah, I forgot. Of course. Well, we'll call it one of Dame Fortune's kicks." "You mean the cattle stealing?"
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