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For instance, if he locked them all up with special care, and particularly the repeater, and then the building were struck with lightning and the watches all destroyed, he would not have to pay for any of them; for this would be an inevitable accident, which all his care could not guard against. It would have been as likely to have happened to my repeater, if I had kept it at home.
"Oh, Ishmael, dear, you were not to blame! it was not your fault! it was an accident a misfortune!" she exclaimed, as blushes burned upon her cheeks and tears suffused her eyes. "How much I blamed, how much I loathed myself, dearest Bee, you can never know! Let that pass. You found me as I said.
"Something has happened to our money?" "I wish that was all." "Then what is it?" Her mind flashed out. "It has something to do with Mary Justin." "How did you know that?" "I guessed." "Well. It is. You see in Switzerland we met." "You met!" "By accident. She had been staying at the hotel on Engstlen Alp." "You slept there!" cried Rachel. "I didn't know she was in the hotel until the next day."
"Hear you, old peoples, we have done nothing in the world out here. All our work is to do: and it shall be done, old peoples. Get away!" He waved his hand imperiously, and pointed to the man. "You see him. He is not good to see. He was just one little oh, so little accident, that no one remembered. Now he is That. So will you be, brother-soldiers so brave so will you be.
Vincy was away, and evidently she had by accident chosen the day of Aylmer's return without knowing anything of his absence. She had never seen him in her life. Aylmer was wandering about the half-dismantled house desoeuvre, with nothing to do, restlessly counting the minutes till two in the afternoon.
'But I am not disputing it, Miss; I'm only supposing what may happen an accident, we'll call it small-pox, diphtheria, that's going very much. Three years and three months, you know, is a long time. You proceed to Bartram-Haugh, thinking you have much goods laid up for many years; but your Creator, you know, may say, "Thou fool, this day is thy soul required of thee."
The next time as well fortune favored him, and he soon had a comfortable nest-egg enough to warrant his feeling reasonably secure in the event of accident or sickness. He had worked faithfully, had given great satisfaction to his employers, and presently had a clerical position in a prominent trust company offered to him. It seemed an advance.
"Why, I remember, Nero, we once had in this circus a lion just about like you. He always said he'd run away if he got the chance. Well, one day his cage was left open by accident, and he ran away." "What happened?" asked Nero. "Well, he ran back again, the next day, and a more sorry or sick-looking lion you never saw! He was bedraggled and lame and hungry and thirsty!
Jasper, in thinking over the plan he had in view, realized that it was one that would probably require all his courage and nerve. It would be a great relief to get through without accident. But he never thought of backing out. He felt that anything was better than to be confined longer in his present prison.
Now this New Portfolio is the cradle in which I am to rock my new-born thoughts, and from which I am to lift them carefully and show them to callers, namely, to the whole family of readers belonging to my list of intimates, and such other friends as may drop in by accident. And so it shall have the definite article, and not be lost in the mob of its fellows as a portfolio.
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