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So he did what most people would do in the same circumstances; he kept still, and trusted to his luck to carry him through. "Oh, I see," he said, finally. "You're going to stop in the grounds and have a picnic, or something like that, eh? That's fine that will be great sport." "That's what I thought," said Charlie Jamieson, innocently, but Bessie was sure that he had winked at her.
No the shot is mine, said the young hunter; you have my money already. Leave the mark, and let me try my luck. Ah! its but money thrown away, lad, said Leather-Stocking. A turkeys head and neck is but a small mark for a new hand and a lame shoulder.
You will stay, won't you, Kosinski, and help our comrades to move the plant?" "I will do what I can," replied the Russian. "I do not understand printing, but I will wheel the barrow, and do anything I may be told." "That's right. Well, good luck to you, comrades. I will try and get round about five. I suppose you will then be at the new place?"
You hear when you can't help yourself, and that you can't be blamed for. Sometimes it's your good luck, and sometimes it's your bad luck just according to what you hear! Well, I was in the window-seat in the library reading when Mother and Aunt Hattie came in; and Mother was saying: "Of course I came out! Do you suppose I'd have had that child see that play, after I realized what it was?
"Put your fifty-eight pounds in your pocket against your wedding-day, and good luck to you. I'll take the case for nothing. Now then, what is it? What the dickens did you mean just now when you spoke about 'the lion's change' and 'the lion's smile'? What lion Nero? Here, sit down and tell me all about it."
"Bad luck to ye, then, Misther Sthroddle," cried Mike, from the bottom of the trench, where he was using a pounding instrument with the zeal of a paviour "Bad luck to the likes of ye, say I, Misther Strides. If ye've no relish for a fortification, in a time of war, ye've only to shoulther yer knapsack, and go out into the open counthry, where ye'll have all to yer own satisfaction.
"Poh, poh, Moses do not be quarrelling with your good luck, just as it's at its height. Here is the house, and I'll engage one of those four girls is your niece that with the bonnet, for a dollar; she being ready to go home, and the whole having come to the door, in consequence of seeing the chaise driving down the road. They are puzzled at finding us in it, however, instead of the usual driver."
She sat down on a low chair by the window with the fearlessness of one whose complexion is not a matter of anxiety, and she told Mrs. Ogilvie the story of the disaster. 'Toffy's so awfully unlucky, said Jane, with genuine sympathy showing in her eyes and voice; 'and the doctor says his hand will be bad for a week at least. 'Is there such a thing as bad luck? said Mrs.
He had sworn never to set foot in that house again, and in all his four years of army life had not exchanged a single letter with that father whom he now addressed so curtly. The marauders had drawn apart and were conversing excitedly among themselves; what, the old man's son, and a "non-com."! it wouldn't answer; better go and try their luck elsewhere!
Selden had never seen Miss Vanderpoel in his Sunday paper, and here he was lying in a room in the same house with her. And she coming in to see him and talk to him as if he was one of the Four Hundred himself! The comfort and luxury with which he found himself surrounded sank into insignificance when compared with such unearthly luck as this.
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