The fortune-telling philosopher, who inspected the finger nails: his visitersAnother philosopher, who judged of the character by the hairThe fortune-teller dupedPredatory warfare.

CHAPTER III Arrival at NewsteadFind it in RuinsThe old Lord and his Beetles The Earl of Carlisle becomes the Guardian of ByronThe Poet's acute Sense of his own deformed FootHis Mother consults a Fortune-teller Mrs Byron, on her arrival at Newstead Abbey with her son, found it almost in a state of ruin.

" While in Cheltenham, Mrs Byron consulted a fortune-teller respecting the destinies of her son, and according to her feminine notions, she was very cunning and guarded with the sybil, never suspecting that she might have been previously known, and, unconscious to herself, an object of interest to the spaewife.

Whether it was this same fortune-teller who foretold that he would, in his twenty-seventh year, incur some great misfortune, is not certain; but, considering his unhappy English marriage, and his subsequent Italian liaison with the Countess Guiccioli, the marital prediction was not far from receiving its accomplishment.

To those unfamiliar with this style of pattern recognition, the connections they draw may appear to be as unrelated as a fortune-teller's tea leaves or Tarot cards are from the future events she predicts.

The fortune-teller shook her head.

Fate and her mother combined were in a fair way to overcome her inclinations, when Mr. Foss, who had been out of town on a job, came in to hear the result of her visit to the fortune-teller, and found Mr. Lippet installed in the seat that used to be his.

She had even gone so far as to consult a fortune-teller shortly before Edgar's birth, and the cards had foretold a boy.

It may be so with you, Sophronia; but there are those who seriously believe every word of a fortune-teller, and actually live more in the unseen but expected events of the future, than in faithfully performing their duties in the present.

I did once go to a fortune-teller, and it was thrilling.

"I have found a fortune-teller in Cloostedd Wood.

"A fortune-teller!

O, then it was a male fortune-teller!" "Gipsies go in gangs, men and women.

These attachments are so shallow that if the fortune-teller who is always consulted gives an unfavorable forecast, the engagement is forthwith broken off.

But now, Josephine had visited the new fortune-teller, Madame Villeneuve, in Paris, and she had said to her, "You will wear a crown, but only for a short time.

SIR, 'Being informed that you have lately got the Use of your Tongue, I have some Thoughts of following your Example, that I may be a Fortune-teller properly speaking.

Her other works, besides portraits, include an "Odalisk," an "Old Woman Fortune-teller," and a "St. Catherine.

Very well, then; let's go and see your precious old fortune-teller.

" "I dessay," said Mr. Boxer; "but you're afraid for us to go to your old fortune-teller.

Mr. Boxer sprang raging to his feet, and in the confusion which ensued the fortune-teller, to the great regret of Mr. Thompson, upset the contents of the magic bowl.

"Ask the fortune-teller," said Mr. Boxer, with an aggravating smile.

"And what I've just told you is as true as what that lying old fortune-teller told you.

He turned upon his stomach on the table and hid his face in his hands and remained thus until the candles were again snuffed and a maid came out into the improvised moonlight in gipsy dress and a fortune-teller's cup and wand.

I then went to the grotto of the fortune-teller, but it was full of noisy rustics; and thence to the lottery hall, where there were plenty of players, but not those of whom I was in search.

It would not surprise me to hear that the prediction of the Poughkeepsie fortune-teller should be fulfilled!"