Events which, when foreseen, would most ardently have been deprecated, and when they happened were accounted in the highest degree luckless, were now seen to be propitious.

Hence I inferred the infatuation of despair, and the folly of precipitate conclusions.
But what was the fate reserved for me?
Perhaps Welbeck would adopt me for his own son.

Wealth has ever been capriciously distributed.

The mere physical relation of birth is all that entitles us to manors and thrones.

Identity itself frequently depends upon a casual likeness or an old nurse's imposture.