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Updated: June 16, 2025
'The house is hardly in order for company. "The children appeared quite embarrassed, and ranged themselves silently and sedately on the chairs to which they had been directed. "'Dear me, Sarah, what a predicament to be in! Where do you suppose Johnny scraped up all these youngsters? I don't know what I ought to do to him for playing me this trick. Mrs.
I shall ask you to walk home with me, if you will." "Sure!" exclaimed Gardner, glad of any method by which the present predicament might be escaped; and he called aloud to one of the servants to bring him his hat and coat. Duncan had moved forward quickly, toward Patricia, to offer his services, but had paused with the words he would have said unuttered.
Ten miles south, and directly across his path, flowed the Chickahominy, a formidable obstacle to the march of a large army. On the 24th, having already been informed that he was to be reinforced by McDowell, he was told that the movement of the latter for Fredericksburg was postponed until the Valley had been cleared. This change of plan placed him in a most awkward predicament.
The stone-pits were active again after the lapse of half a century. "By the grace of the mutable Hathors," the young man muttered as he dropped back into his seat, "my father may yet decorate a temple to Set, but by the same favor, it seems that I shall be snatched from the brink of a sacrilege." He permitted his boat to drift while he contemplated his predicament.
"We must eat. Afterward we shall consider what is to be done. The situation demands careful thought, then action. We cannot go far without our guide." They knew that. Breakfast was prepared in some haste that morning. While eating they discussed their predicament, finally coming to a decision.
To reach them it was necessary for the Germans to stand directly in front of the steps, and there was no man below who felt called upon to face this certain death, in spite of the hoarse commands of General Rentzel. But in a situation like this could not last long. Other officers and soldiers, aroused by the explosion appeared on the scene. Hal realized that their predicament was desperate.
"I haven't had time; it only happened ten minutes ago." "I knew it," said Mrs. Ryves, more gaily now. "What did you know?" "That you were in some predicament." "You're extraordinary. I never heard of anything so miraculous; down two flights of stairs." "ARE you in a quandary?" the visitor asked. "Yes, about giving them back."
If that is true we should be happy," remarked one of the tourists as we gathered on the deck gazing at an animated scene. "Look! There are thirty boats in the same predicament as our own." Within sight in different directions on the wide river lay thirty loaded feluccas stranded on the bars, and in addition to these were sixty-five others not aground.
The answer must be that "the valiant man and free" must, like every one else, learn his business before he can expect to have any measure of success. The kindlier hand must be skilled by long practice before it can direct the vast social mechanism. The Fury in Shelley's "Prometheus Unbound" described the predicament in which the world has long found itself:
The poor beast did not seem pleased with his predicament; but the trap had been set by one of the drivers, and, of course, Jack would not have meddled with it except upon my express order, which, in spite of some pangs of pity for the otter, I did not like to give him, as in the extremely few resources of either profit or pleasure possessed by the slaves I could not tell at all what might be the value of an otter to his captor.
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