It was an obvious convergence, this devotion of all the traits which composed, so Adrian imagined, the despicable soul that lay beneath his uncle's unangled exterior: undeviating self-indulgence; secrecy; utter selfishnesshe was selfish even to the woman he was supposed to love; that is, if he was capable of loving any one but himselfa bland hypocrisy; an unthinking conformation to the dictates of an unthinking world.

What startled him, however, may have been simply an involuntary conclusion, instantaneously drawn, from the plain convergence of all the forces in and upon the individual toward a point of final deliverance or of near catastrophe: when "the mortal instruments" are steadily working for evil, the only hope of deliverance lies in catastrophe.

She watches "the stealthy convergence of human fates," the intersection at various angles of the planes of character, the power that the lower nature has to thwart, stupefy, or corrupt the higher, which has become entangled with it in the mesh of destiny.

Here a sudden convergence in the rocks compresses its channel, and with a gurgling, choking struggle, it leaps with a single bound, sheer from an even level shelf, into the tremendous chasm.

In a little while there were painful explanations for Mrs. Skinnerexplanations that reduced her to speechless mumblings of her remaining toothexplanations that probed her and ransacked her and exposed heruntil at last she was driven to take refuge from a universal convergence of blame in the dignity of inconsolable widowhood.