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"That gets us about two weeks ahead of time." "Did you ever get through when you thought you would?" Bannon demanded. "I never did. Don't you know that you always get hit by something you ain't looking for? I'm figuring in our hard-luck margin, that's all. There are some things I am looking for, too. We'll have a strike here before we get through." "Oh, I guess not," said Pete, easily.
Well, what Cinderella said when the prince fitted that 3½ A on her foot was a hard-luck story compared to the things I told myself. "Then Aunt Maggie says she is going to give me a coming-out banquet in the Bonton that'll make moving Vans of all the old Dutch families on Fifth Avenue. "'I've been out before, Aunt Maggie, says I. 'But I'll come out again.
I 've been up against some dead tough luck, and I 've had some fancy crimps put in me, but somehow I 've never felt so 'on my uppers' as I did at the Springs that night. "Say, if this hard-luck story of mine gets tiresome to you, ring me off. I did n't think I 'd be so long in getting to where my troubles began."
The loss of this game to Princeton in the last six minutes of playing because of the Lamar run Yale had Princeton 5 to 0 has been a nightmare to most of the Yale players ever since. I attribute the fact that Yale only had five points to two hard-luck facts.
Freddie pulled himself together with an effort. He was in sore straits, but he saw one last chance. His researches in detective fiction had given him the knowledge that detectives occasionally relaxed their austerity when dealing with a deserving case. Even Gridley Quayle could sometimes be softened by a hard-luck story.
He had few acquaintances and no friends; he ate when he could slept where he could, and life to him was just a continued hard-luck story. Imagine, then, the incredulous amazement of the Bald-faced Kid when Old Man Curry informed him that Jockey Gillis had secured steady employment. "That shrimp?" said the Kid. "Why, if he had the ice-water privilege in hell he'd starve to death!"
"Well then, barrin' the fact that you ain't got no hat, ain't you jest as well off without no overcoat now as I'd be if I fell for any hard-luck spiel from you and let you have mine?" "I wouldn't go so far as to say that exactly," tendered Mr. Leary ingratiatingly. "I'm afraid my clothing isn't as suitable for outdoor wear as yours is.
I am ready to quit." When Mrs. Snawdor arrived, she swept all domestic problems impatiently aside. "Fer goodness' sake don't come tellin' me no more hard-luck tales. Ain't I got troubles enough of my own? Nance, soon 's you git through, go git me a bucket of beer, an' if you see any of the Gormans, say I'll stop in this evenin' on my way to work."
In a few weeks the man came back, and tried to tell Tom his hard-luck story concerning the Cold Ingratitude of a Cruel World. Tom said, "Spare me the slow music and the recital I have troubles of my own. I need mirth and good cheer take this dollar, and peace be with you." "Peace be multiplied unto thee," said the beggar, and departed.
My ambition would be to have a whacking big farm, a sort of ranch, miles away from anywhere He broke off. This was not the first time he had caught himself forgetting how his circumstances had changed in the past few weeks. It was ridiculous to be telling hard-luck stories about not being able to buy a farm, when he had the wherewithal to buy dozens of farms.
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