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Updated: June 26, 2025
Never was the adage that, "The best laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft agley," more painfully apparent.
Doctors were forgotten, stimulants were tabooed, the insignia of invalidism banished, and to my intense surprise I ran across her at a fishing port surrounded by a bevy of blue-jerseyed lads, who were some of those whom she was being blessed by helping. The best of efforts, however, sometimes "gang aft agley."
The Apostolical party, exulting in their strength, and confiding in those well-laid plans which, with mice and men, 'gang aft agley, imprudently showed their hand, and suffered their favorite project to transpire; which was, to set aside the ordinance by which the King had made null the Salic law, in favor of his infant daughter, and to support the pretensions of the King's brother, Carlos, to the throne.
And then, at the fag end of the summer, when all his well-laid plans had one by one gone agley, chance brought to Green an adventure sheer chance and a real adventure. The circumstance of a deranged automobile was largely responsible that and the added incident of a broken shoe-string.
That was to be sure his common manner in company, yet she could not help thinking there was some difference since the walk they had taken together, and it grieved her. The beat-laid schemes o' mice and men Gang aft agley. Burns. After a few days Charlton verified what Constance had said about his not being very fast at Fort Hamilton, by coming again to see them one morning.
In the patient solving of tremendous problems he had toiled up the mountain-side of success scaling its topmost peak and obtaining a view of the boundless prospect. But, alas! "The best laid plans o' mice and men gang aft agley."
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