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Updated: June 22, 2025
"However pleasant it may be to you," remarked one, "it's profitable to a good many." "How so?" "Why, see the numbers, of things that will be spoiled, coats torn, hats crushed, heads broken, and shoes burst. Oh, it's an ill-wind that blows nobody any good." "So it is, but you may benefit anybody you like, so you don't do it at my expence."
"So did I," said Wally Meadows, pumping her hands vigorously. "I was going home, but my aunt obligingly got measles. I'm awfully sorry for Aunt. But it's an ill-wind that blows nowhere old Jim took pity on me, and here I am!" "I should think so," Norah said. "We haven't felt a bit complete without you. Dad was saying only this morning how sorry he was you couldn't come. He'll get such a shock!
One more a flag-buoy will soon follow, and then straight for shore. 'June 20. 'It is an ill-wind, &c. I have an unexpected opportunity of forwarding this engineering letter; for the craft which brought out our Italian sailors must return to Cagliari to-night, as the little cable will take us nearly to Galita, and the Italian skipper could hardly find his way from thence.
Ill-wind blew the deer good that time; else he would long ago have run them down on snowshoes and cut their throats, as if they were indeed his "tarnal sheep" that had run wild in the woods. At the southern end of a great hardwood ridge I found the first path of their yard. It was half filled with snow, unused since the last two storms.
She squandered millions of francs on a navy which she did not need, and the first time she took her new toy into action she got it knocked higher than Gilderoy's kite to use the language of the Pilgrims. But it is an ill-wind that blows nobody good.
"I really cannot understand even now," said Lawrence, "why in the world you couldn't stay to return with father!" "Oh well, it's an ill-wind that blows no one any good," cried Mark, while Carrissima sat with her eyes averted, hoping that nobody would suspect her actual object.
One more a flag-buoy will soon follow, and then straight for shore. "June 20. "It is an ill-wind, etc. I have an unexpected opportunity of forwarding this engineering letter; for the craft which brought out our Italian sailors must return to Cagliari to-night, as the little cable will take us nearly to Galita, and the Italian skipper could hardly find his way from thence.
Hamblin?" chuckled the jolly professor, hardly able to speak without having his words blown down his throat. "I've lost my hat," growled the learned gentleman, almost choked with ill-nature within, and the ill-wind without. "Ask the captain to send a boat for it," laughed Mr. Stoute. "There he stands! Upon my word, he is a wonder to me!
"Well, my dear, 'tis a true saying about an ill-wind, for it will be all the better for Colonel Brandon. He will have her at last; aye, that he will. Mind me, now, if they an't married by Mid-summer. Lord! how he'll chuckle over this news! I hope he will come tonight. It will be all to one a better match for your sister.
Our load was landed under the arcade of the Hotel de Ville; but the driver, in the genuine spirit of a London hackney-coachman, did not forget to turn the "ill-wind" to his own account, by importuning me for a double fare. I learned that the storm had been less tremendous in its consequences at St.
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