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"It is destiny," said Hastings to himself, when early the next morning he was on his road to the farm -- "it is destiny, -- and who can resist his fate?"
"It is destiny! " -- phrase of the weak human heart! "It is destiny! " dark apology for every error! The strong and the virtuous admit no destiny! On earth guides conscience, in heaven watches God. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one, to dethrone the other!