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The only sensible plan is to keep your money, dear reader. You know more than these impostors can possibly tell you. Many of these fortune-tellers and clairvoyants are simply procuresses. They draw women into their houses and ply them so with temptations, that they frequently ruin them. This is the real business of most of them. They are leagued with the keepers of houses of ill-fame.
A father had an only son whom he loved excessively. His devoted affection caused him to be so anxious as to the boy's welfare that he sought to learn from astrologers and fortune-tellers what fate was in store for the son and heir. One of these soothsayers told him that an especial danger lay with lions, from which the youth must be guarded until the age of twenty was reached, but not after.
"Olivia, Olivia! you are cruel to yourself and to me, but you shall hear part, at least. I warn you, however, you will be no happier for knowing." "Go on," she said, steadily. He turned from her, walked to the window, and kept his back to her while he spoke. "You have no faith in fortune-tellers, clairvoyants, astrologers, and the like, have you, Olivia?" "Most certainly not!"
She charges only five francs for a consultation, and it appears that all sorts of well-known people go to her, even those whom the Parisians call the Gratin, that is, the Upper Crust, from the Champs Elysées and the Faubourg St. Germain!" "I don't think much of fortune-tellers," said Sylvia, thoughtfully.
All this does not sound very ill, and the last was not at all amiss, for they wear no breeches. Thence it comes to pass, that nothing is so firmly believed, as what we least know; nor any people so confident, as those who entertain us with fables, such as your alchemists, judicial astrologers, fortune-tellers, and physicians, "Id genus omne."
Lackeys drew forth cases of wine and provisions, and the flutter of table-cloths had begun to attract vagrants, itinerant musicians, fortune-tellers, begging children. All these plied their trades round the fashion of grey frock-coats and silk sun-shades.
Boys without any gifts of the kind required, remain to fill the humbler positions; those who advance to a certain point are drafted into trade; while hosts of others who just fall short of the highest, become tutors in private families, schoolmasters, doctors, fortune-tellers, geomancers, and booksellers' hacks.
Alchemy had a strong hold upon the popular mind, and these alchemists and astrologers were fortune-tellers and derived a goodly income from the people. They had their stands in front of all churches and turned in a goodly tithe "for the benefit of the poor."
While Elizabeth Christine prayed, Amelia tried her fortune with cards; while the queen gathered around her ministers of the gospel and pious scholars, the princess called to the prophets and fortune-tellers. While Elizabeth found comfort in reading the Holy Scriptures, Amelia found consolation in the mystical and enigmatical words of her sooth-sayers.
"She'd be lumped with common or garden palmists and fortune-tellers, I suppose." "Yes, that's what she fears. But she wants to be in our Devonshire house party at Easter to save us from something." Knight looked interested. "Save us from what?" "She couldn't see it distinctly in the crystal." He laughed. "She could see distinctly that she wanted to be there. Well we hadn't thought of having her.
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