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Updated: June 14, 2025
"I give you my word, that if you tell me anything about me which is true, I will freely acknowledge it; so now, Mr Fortune-teller, here's my hand it may be useful, you know, in helping your discovery." "I do not want your hand, Spicer; now hear me. Is not your name James? and were you not born at Tynemouth?" Spicer started. "How did you find that out? Well, Tom, it is so, and what then?"
As he was this day, according to his custom, in the kitchen, taking his snack by way of a damper, he heard the housemaid and the cook talking about some wonderful fortune-teller, whom the housemaid had been consulting.
In Alexandria the Jewess, half beggar, half fortune-teller, would stop people in the streets and interpret dreams by the help of the Bible, or sit under a sacred tree like a sibyl, and promise wealth to those who consulted her, duly proportioned to the size of the coin by which she was paid.
The gift of silver crossing a palm has other powers besides that of inspiring a fortune-teller. It can inspire a story-teller, as well. "Yes, Sah," he began, "I know jes' how that was, 'cause my gran'pap, he was a porter in de Jamaica Institute, an' when I was a small shaver I used to go wid him in the mornin's when he was sweepin' up, and I used to help him dust de cases. Yes, Sah.
The fortune-teller spread his little carpet and knelt down in order to read the palm of his hypothetical client, but Cairn waved him aside. "I don't want my fortune told!" he said; "but I will give you your fee," with a smile at Sime "for a few minutes' conversation." "Yes, sir, yes, sir!" The Indian was all attention.
In a small way he had long made a study of Lionel Varick, and it amused him to see Varick in a new rôle that of a prosperous country gentleman. Suddenly Bubbles found an ally in a most unexpected quarter. Helen Brabazon called out: "I've always longed to attend a séance! I did once go to a fortune-teller, and it was thrilling ." Bubbles stepped down off her footstool.
Oh, it was mere folly to think on such things, and to busy herself with the ludicrous prophecies of the old woman. And Josephine laughed at her own credulity, and the slaves sang and danced, and against her will the thoughts of the young maiden returned to the prophecy again and again. What the old fortune-teller had said, was it so very ridiculous, so impossible?
Drawing a square in the sand, the fortune-teller made a cross at the south-east, upon which, to see it better, the girl drew close so close that the sweet perfume of her veils filled his nostrils. "Then shalt thou, in thy search, go, even under the stars, to the Gate of Tomorrow, and there shall thou find a mare descended from the mares of Mohammed, the Prophet of Allah the one and only God.
She knew what her mother's objection meant. Mrs Durbeyfield's jacket and bonnet were already hanging slily upon a chair by her side, in readiness for this contemplated jaunt, the reason for which the matron deplored more than its necessity. "And take the Compleat Fortune-Teller to the outhouse," Joan continued, rapidly wiping her hands, and donning the garments.
According to Chinese custom, they called in the old blind fortune-teller to declare her fate and give advice concerning her future. His verdict was discouraging for he told them that she must be killed or given away to another family, since as long as she remained in the home the long-desired son would never come to them.
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