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Particular To those who, standing apart from the rush and flurry of life, look

upon the world with a seeing eye, it is, surely, interesting to

observe on what sreat

matters depend To the student History abounds with examples, and to

the philosopher they are to beneither a student nor a philosopher)

know, or even guess, that all his fine ideas and intentions were to

be frustrated, and his whole future entirely changed by nothing more

nor less than--a pebble, an ordinary, s as any of its kind, yet (like young David's)

singled out by destiny to be one of these "s on the terrace, the Duchess, Cleone, Barnabas, and

the Captain, and they were very silent,--the Duchess, perhaps,

because she had supped adequately, the Captain because of his long,

clay pipe, Cleone because she happened to be lost in contemplation

of the moon, and Barnabas, because he was utterly absorbed in

conteht was very warm and very still, and upon the quietude stole

a sound--softer, yet

leaves,--a soothing,quiet but the hed the Duchess at last, "and the