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It has one virtue you can see it coming and dodge, and at night it most considerately leaves a trail of sparks. The Boche served us full portions of all three of these man-killers in the Warren and kept us ducking in and out pretty much all the time, night and day. I was lucky enough after the first day to be put on sappers' duty.
'He laughs best who laughs last! "It was within a fortnight after that most unfortunate event that the crisis came. My father sent for me, and told me he had had a proposal for my hand. "'The man who wants to marry you will make a great lady of you, my girl, said my father, eagerly. 'You are lucky! I repeat you are very lucky!
'That's a strange sort of man, said Mr Tappertit, watching the hackney-coachman's hat as it went bobbing down the street. 'I don't know what to make of him. Why can't he have his smalls made to order, or wear live clothes at any rate? 'He's a lucky man, captain, cried Hugh. 'I should like to have such friends as his.
The blunderbuss had been trained on the opening with some care, and it was lucky for the men that they happened to be in retreat, and so presenting their backs at the time lucky, also, that only buckshot had been used instead of the bullets and slugs with which the other guns were loaded. But even so it was enough. She was always careless and scattery, our old "King George."
'It looks as if you had been amongst the gooseberry-bushes, said Hilary, examining his arm as he pulled up his sleeve. 'Does it? Well, I only know it's lucky for me there were no poisoned arrows. 'Oughtn't you to have it burnt, though, Clarence, just in case? suggested Cecily, in all good faith; 'there's sure to be a red-hot poker in the kitchen.
Well," poor Susan sighed, "she is a sweet young lady. I suppose he loves her." "Devotedly. He will be married soon." "And she's got Miss Loach's money too," sighed Susan again, "what a lucky young lady. Handsome looks in a husband and gold galore. A poor servant like me has to look on and keep her heart up with the Church Service.
Well, I'm nursing myself a bit now; and when a person has passed through so much, isn't it fair she should do so? I have been so lucky in falling in with a nice gentleman. May Heaven bless him!" With this outburst she dropped two large lumps of sugar into her wine. She was now getting more corpulent than ever, and her little eyes had almost vanished from her fat face.
Some pale water-lilies lie upon it, as though cast there by some lucky chance, and cling to it lovingly, as if glad to have found so soft a resting place. There is no flower in her hair, and no jewels anywhere, except three rows of priceless pearls, that clasp her slender throat.
Surely, then, it must be a proud thought to him that he has done all this himself, by his own unaided efforts, and that amid all his wonderful success there does not rest one single stain upon his good name as a man or a merchant. It is said that Mr. Stewart regards himself as a "lucky man," rather than as one who has risen by the force of his own genius.
Not so the Austrian, who was on the other side of Alice, and who could not see Victoria. Mr. Crewe, by his manner and appearance, had impressed him as a person of importance, and he wanted to know more. Besides, he wished to improve his English, and Alice had been told to speak French to him. By a lucky chance, after several blind attempts, he awakened the interest of the personality.
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