But distrusting the constancy of that good fortune, which had so unexpectedly smiled upon them, they hastened to get rid of these insecure possessions, and to convert their immovable into transferable property.

Silent as fate, as nature the immovable, he sat his place; his lithe body conforming involuntarily to the motion, to the play of muscles beneath his legs; yet as unconsciously as one breathes in sleep.

The truth was that she had merely evaded his intolerance of any and all difference of opinionas a deep stream quietly flows round an immovable rockonly to turn gently back into its own course as soon as might be.