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Death was in front of him; he knew it. Death or a deathless fame. The fates had willed one or the other, and he chose to take the gambler's chance, the chance he and Dolver and the Chief had refused Lane Morgan. Deathless fame, the respect and the admiration of every man in the section was his if he beat "Drag" Harlan to the draw.
In her cave she was accustomed to inscribe on leaves gathered from the trees the names and fates of individuals. The leaves thus inscribed were arranged in order within the cave, and might be consulted by her votaries. But if perchance at the opening of the door the wind rushed in and dispersed the leaves the Sibyl gave no aid to restoring them again, and the oracle was irreparably lost.
He bowed with a dignity unusual to him, and tears were in his eyes as he passed by De Mauleon and gained the anteroom. There a side-door suddenly opened, and Julie's face, anxious, eager, looked forth. Gustave paused: "Adieu, Mademoiselle! Adieu, though we may never meet again, though our fates divide us, believe me that I shall ever cherish your memory and "
"A noble wish," said Riccabocca, smiling blandly, "and one that the Fates will realize. Cheer up; Violante will not be my heiress." "Ah," cried Randal, drawing a long breath "ah, what do I hear?" "Hist! I shall soon a second time be a father. And, to judge by the unerring researches of writers upon that most interesting of all subjects, parturitive science, I shall be the father of a son.
Moreover Giovanni Saracinesca saw that the abolition of primogeniture had put an end to hereditary idleness, and that although his sons would be rich enough to do nothing if they pleased, yet his grandchildren would probably have to choose between work and genteel poverty, if it pleased the fates to multiply the race.
But here, too, the fates are against him: a kind captain to whom he makes application suspects him for a runaway, and advises him to find his way home. He returns once more to the plough; "but," he says, "I was now spoiled for a farmer." "It was on the 6th of May, 1783, that I, like Don Quixote, sallied forth to seek adventures.
She must be managed and kept from harm and afterwards indulged and spoiled and fêted to her heart's content. If only the fates would give them another child! a child brilliant and lovely like herself, then surely this melancholy which overshadowed her would disperse.
The doctrine of predestination, so favorable to martial virtue, was carefully inculcated by the king of the Huns; who assured his subjects, that the warriors, protected by Heaven, were safe and invulnerable amidst the darts of the enemy; but that the unerring Fates would strike their victims in the bosom of inglorious peace.
Over all the rest the blackest fates hovered menacingly fates from which a mother might pray that kindly death would save her children in their infancy. The revolver was thrust near to the back of the head of the unsuspecting victim that kind man who had "never willingly planted a thorn in any man's bosom," who could not bear to witness suffering even in an animal.
Which thou shalt do; if thou shalt go about every action as thy last action, free from all vanity, all passionate and wilful aberration from reason, and from all hypocrisy, and self-love, and dislike of those things, which by the fates or appointment of God have happened unto thee.
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