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"It got wind in the forecastle that something wild, unearthly, hellish, was aloft, and the watch below turned out, too restless to sleep, and all through those hours of darkness the sailors walked the decks in groups, again and again staring up at the foretopmast cross-trees, where the mysterious bulk of blackness sate, squatted, or hung motionless, like some brooding fiend, or incarnation of ill-luck, sinking by force of meditation its curses not loud, but deep, into the bottom of the very hold itself.
"Charlie," I pleaded, "if you'll only be sensible for a minute or two I'll make our hero in our tale every inch as good as Othere." "Umph! Longfellow wrote that poem. I don't care about writing things any more. I want to read." He was thoroughly out of tune now, and raging over my own ill-luck, I left him.
But take matters quietly, I entreat you; for I sincerely hope it will prove that there is no necessity for any such decided step." The two girls turned away, and went together to the cabin which they jointly occupied. Mrs Staunton had already followed her husband below; and Dale also hurried away, loudly bewailing his ill-luck in ever having embarked on board such an unfortunate vessel.
I was a willing dupe, and assured her that if she liked it it could not be too dear, and that I would pay. While my sweetheart was thus choosing one trifle after another my ill-luck brought about an incident which placed me in a fearful situation four years afterwards. The chain of events is endless.
"You buys fine clothes for him, and nurses and tutors and schools for him. "You teaches him the speech of gentlefolk, and the airs of gentlefolk, and the learning of gentlefolk. "You crams his head with religion, which is a thing I doesn't hold with, and with holy words, which I thinks brings ill-luck.
As late as 1855 the old parish clerk of the village remembered quite well to have seen the birds staggering about from the effects of the fits which had been transferred to them. Often the sufferer seeks to shift his burden of sickness or ill-luck to some inanimate object. In Athens there is a little chapel of St. John the Baptist built against an ancient column.
The coffin has gone gone to China again with the old man and two ounces of smoke inside it, in case he should want 'em on the way. The Joss doesn't get so many sticks burnt under his nose as he used to; that's a sign of ill-luck, as sure as Death. He's all brown, too, and no one ever attends to him.
Again there was ill-luck about the tableaux on Saturday, for in the Brunnhilde scene, Peppino in his agitation, turned the lamp that was to be a sunrise, completely out, and Brunnhilde had to hail the midnight, or at any rate a very obscure twilight.
Now I thought that I would cut him loose, and bent over him to do so, when by ill-luck he saw my face and began to shout, saying, "'Go away, you yellow devil. I know you have come to take me to hell, but you are too soon, and if my hands were loose I would twist your head off your shoulders.
When he saw Ill-Luck it came into his head to do a good turn to poor sorrowful man. "Good-morning, Ill-Luck," says he. "Good-morning, St. Nicholas," says Ill-Luck. "You look as hale and strong as ever," says St. Nicholas. "Ah, yes," says Ill-Luck, "I find plenty to do in this world of woe." "They tell me," says St.
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