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"Robbed! look you there now," said the Governor "everybody that comes here has been robbed. Egad, I am the luckiest fellow in Europe other people in my line have only thieves and blackguards upon their hands; but none come to my ken but honest, decent, unfortunate gentlemen, that have been robbed!"
They hung him for a traitor, themselves the traitor crew, But his soul goes marching along. 'Feeling good? I asked. 'Fine. I'm about the luckiest man on God's earth, Major. I've always wanted to get into a big show, but I didn't see how it would come the way of a homely citizen like me, living in a steam-warmed house and going down town to my office every morning.
Do you take the father's part as well as the son's?" "I don't know anything about Mr. Ardworth senior," said Percival, pouting; "but I do know that my friend would not allow any one to speak ill of his father in his presence; and I beg you, sir, to consider that whatever would offend him must offend me." "Gad's my life! He's the luckiest young rogue to have such a friend.
Of course the three were looked upon as the luckiest fellows ever known by the rest of the troop present.
"If he remains a bachelor," said Uncle Tom, "he'll be the greatest waste of good material I know of. And if you succeed in getting him, Honora, you'll be the luckiest young woman of my acquaintance." "Tom," said Aunt Mary, "it was all very well to talk that way when Honora was a child. But now she may not wish to marry Peter. And Peter may not wish to marry her."
"He tried to bet a barrel of money and the bookmakers laughed at him. As a general thing he bets a few dollars in each book; this time he went at 'em too strong. The bookies are a little leary of that innocent old boy." "Call him innocent if you want to. He's either the shrewdest horseman on this circuit or the luckiest, and I be damned if I can tell which! Hm-m-m. Jeremiah, 20 to 1.
And I'm sure the luckiest man alive, for I've got what money can't buy. I've got you, and thirty millions couldn't buy you, nor three thousand millions, nor thirty cents " A knock at the door interrupted him, and he was left to stare delightedly at the Crouched Venus and on around the room at Dede's dainty possessions, while she answered the telephone. "It is Mr. Hegan," she said, on returning.
Harry bade me sit down with the air of one who entertains a guest of importance; I swelled with pride as I attacked the kidney. Harry, sitting opposite, eating with a gusto equal to my own, seemed to me the most perfect and luckiest of mortals. "Harry!" I got it out through my mouth full of potato chips, "Harry, I say! Do you always have jolly things like these to eat?" He gave a short laugh.
"Ain't you the luckiest kid!" cried Tommy enviously, as he crowded to get another look. "If there's anything goin', you get it." "Now clear out, all you boys, and let Pearl get her breakfast," said Mary. "I haven't had a chance to speak to her yet, and I want to know how the girls are wearing their hair and how long a girl of sixteen should wear her skirts, and lots of things."
I beat the cask, and gathered by the sound that it was more than half full. Heaven was bountiful too in providing us with biscuit. It had been the luckiest of thoughts on Jackson's part, though he had desired nothing more than to obtain a relish for his own rations of buffalo hump aboard. I never remember the like of the pitch darkness of that night.
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