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Updated: June 6, 2025
"What a fortunate fellow you are!" began the impetuous Dean, as the two friends stepped again into their boat; "what a tide of good-luck you bring with you!" He was at any rate a bringer of good fortune to his friends, the Dean retorted; one friend at least he had saved from an unseemly outbreak of passion.
"Why, you look as cold as ice," exclaimed the woman, half- resentfully. "I'm the only one who seems to feel it. I I'm positively delirious. My partners look at me in the strangest way, as if they thought I were liable to become dangerous at any moment." "Not too loud!" her husband cautioned, then to Kirk: "Good-luck, old man. Lord! I need a bracer."
Here he squatted down and made some sort of strange passes over his trap, mumbling certain words in a strange tongue. Like all of his people, Skookie was superstitious. What he wanted to do now was to wish his trap good-luck.
Moreover, he was already deciding in his mind that he would perform a novena somewhere next year, before again repairing to Lourdes. "Ah! by the way," he resumed, "do you know of the good-luck which my substitute has had? Yes, you must remember my telling you about that poor fellow suffering from tuberculosis, for whom I paid fifty francs when I obtained /hospitalisation/ for myself.
Many a bit of English folk-lore many an odd Irish fancy concerning fairies and the like; symbols of good-luck; banshees and "the little-folk" came honestly to these people from the days of the Druids.
"The name of this," said he, "is cobler, that other's good-luck, and the third's spend-all:" And as the image of Trimalchio was carryed round, and every one kiss'd it, we thought it a shame not to do as the rest of the company.
"I think I know, but I am not going to tell," his friend answered, lightly. "I am off up-stairs now. I will send Nina down; but without a word of warning. You'll have to lead up to it yourself and good-luck to you, my boy!"
Sometimes a man lives through everything. All I meant was, sometimes when good-luck comes to a man it comes so darned late it might just as well not come at all." "Henry, you don't mean to be wicked and ungrateful?" "If I am I can't help it. I ain't a hypocrite, anyway.
There was such a cloud raised by their smoke you could hardly see a yard before you- -another piece of good-luck for me as it diminished the chances of my detection. I recommend anybody who goes to India, with the prospect of entering the service of the native rajahs, to recollect my advice, and have them WELL WADDED.
Here Jacks and Bud and I or sometimes one or two of us, according to our good-luck used to sit of evenings when the tide of trade was over, and "visit" Miss Hinkle. Ileen was a girl of ideas. She had read and listened and thought.
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