A peasant can no more help believing in a traditional superstition than a horse can help trembling when be sees a camel.
It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.
Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
There's good chances and bad chances, and nobody's luck is pulled only by one string.
Awful Night! Ancestral mystery of mysteries.
The dew-bead Gem of earth and sky begotten.