1 We knew them both; it was the fairy of Care, and the emissary of Fortune.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE 2 The messenger of Fortune had only executed a few unimportant commissions, such as saving a new bonnet from a shower of rain, etc.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE 3 The Shoes of Fortune had placed him in the most dreadful situation; and, unfortunately, it never occurred to him to wish himself free.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE 4 The next morning he had a sore chest and a bleeding back; and, excepting the fright, that was all that he had gained by the Shoes of Fortune.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE 5 There, on the floor lay the galoshes, which the watchman had forgotten; he never dreamed for a moment that they were those of Fortune; and they promised to do him good service in the wet; so he put them on.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE 6 "At all events it must be those which are wet," thought he; but this time, in spite of his cleverness, he guessed quite wrong, for it was just those of Fortune which played as it were into his hands, or rather on his feet.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE 7 It was late; Councillor Knap, deeply occupied with the times of King Hans, intended to go home, and malicious Fate managed matters so that his feet, instead of finding their way to his own galoshes, slipped into those of Fortune.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE 8 With other topics he was not so fortunate; every moment brought about some new confusion, and threatened to become a perfect Babel; for the worthy Bachelor was really too ignorant, and the simplest observations of the Councillor sounded to him too daring and phantastical.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE 9 To it the space between the heavenly bodies is not greater than the distance between the homes of our friends in town is for us, even if they live a short way from each other; such an electric shock in the heart, however, costs us the use of the body here below; unless, like the watchman of East Street, we happen to have on the Shoes of Fortune.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContextHighlight In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE