The fates had immolated the helpless; were the fates preparing a still bitterer expiation?

We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone.

Some one sent upstairs for the landlord, who arrived to bemoan the unjust fates which had not only mulcted him of two months' rent with nothing to show for it but a rickety clock, but had also saddled him with a wholly superfluous corpse.

There in the seat where I was wont to pursue my even tenor as an orchid slumbered Martin Dyke, amateur desecrator of other men's houses, challenger of the wayward fates, fanatic of a will-o'-the-wisp pursuit, desperate adventurer in the uncharted realms of love; and in his face, turned toward the polychromatic abominations of the house, so soon to be deserted, was all the pathos and all the beauty of illusion-haunted youth.

Who am I to interfere with the dominant fates!

"Then," said I, "the Fates may as well shut up shop and Providence take a day off; the universe has temporarily changed its management.

Then he held her off and shut his eyes, for the untrammeled exercise of his reasoning powers, and again demanded of Barbran and the fates: "What's the use?" "What's the use of what?" returned Barbran tremulously.

" I have hazarded the opinion that it was a kindly fate which frustrated the consummation of the Russian contract, and here again I venture to say that the Fates were kind, that Morse was right in saying that the "delays" would "turn out to be beneficial."

"Turning tea-cups, Gypsy Helen, and telling fates, all to no audience, and with no cross on your palm?" asked the guest.

" "Well, summer and freedom are here; I am ready for all fates, all deeds of valor, vigils among the rest.

Judge Doty writes from Mackinac: "Believing the winds and fates to have been propitious, I trust you had a speedy, safe, and pleasant passage to your home.

The fates of the two spots have been in a strange way the converse of one another.

No sooner had I perused it through my quizzing-glass, which, I confess, that I had brought with me more for ornament than usehaving eyes like a hawkthan I pathetically exclaimed to Lucy'Behold, my love, the history of our fates!'

The time I could allot to the journey was unfortunately so short, that, except of one or two of the leading places, I could not hope to have more than literally a flying sight, and should therefore be insensibly compelled to receive many impressions from the travelling society among which the Fates threw me.

the Fates were not propitious; but few birds crossed, and those mostly out of range.

Great is the man, I grant, whose strength of mind, Self-shapes its objects and subdues the Fates Virtue subdues the Fates, but cannot bind The fickle Happiness, whose smile awaits Those who scarce seek it; nor can courage earn What the Grace showers not from her own free urn!

Great is the man, I grant, whose strength of mind, Self-shapes its objects and subdues the Fates Virtue subdues the Fates, but cannot bind The fickle Happiness, whose smile awaits Those who scarce seek it; nor can courage earn What the Grace showers not from her own free urn!

The fates of war are playing....

The Fates had granted that when the Thessalian King Admetus approached the ordained end of his life it should be prolonged if another person voluntarily consented to die in his place.

We read of husbands leaving their wives, and women their children, to the most dreadful of fates, on the chance that they themselves might thereby escape; and on the other hand, we read again and again of the noblest acts of self-sacrifice, where the man freely gave his life for that of his wife or child, his brother or his friend.

The fates of these two communities, of white Dunkards and red Moravians, were exactly parallel.

Wayne was determined to avoid the fates of Braddock and St. Clair.

Although she could not be seen by her enemies, she saw the three cruisers who were on the lookout, and great uneasiness prevailed on board concerning the fates of the absentees.

**** AN ESSAY ON THE FATES OF CLERGYMEN.

[T.S.] AN ESSAY ON THE FATES OF CLERGYMEN.