The immortals have indeed shown me very plainly that it is their will sometimes to spoil the feast of life with a right bitter draught.

But, like the moon itself, all it shines on is doomed to change--happily! Many things here below seem strangely ordered.

Like ears and eyes, hands and feet, many things are by nature double, and misfortunes, as they say, commonly come in couples yoked like oxen." "Then you have had some twofold blow ?" asked Melissa, clasping her hands over her anxiously throbbing bosom.
"I, child! No, indeed.

Nothing has befallen your father's younger son; and if I were a philosopher, like Philip, I should be moved to wonder why a man can only be wet when the rain falls on him, and yet can be so wretched when disaster falls on another.

But do not look at me with such terror in your great eyes.