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Lodgings are to be had " "All right, Doctor; I've got a lodging ready for her, and will ask you to come an' have pot-luck with us before long. Gillie, my lad, you go hail a cab, and then come back to lend a hand wi' the cargo."
'It's not that I pay him much, said my father, stroking his chin between thumb and forefinger, as his manner was when pondering such a point; 'but the fact is we can by no manner of juggling pretend to be able to afford even that little. Then, again, you see, the poor chap must eat. The fish he brings us are a real help, and no wage-earner I ever met could take pot-luck more cheerfully than Ted.
The elder of these boys is probably old enough to begin to take care of himself. But, the younger perhaps you have a family of your own, and can spare him!" Mr. Morton hesitated, and twitched up his trousers. "Why," said he, "this is very kind in you. I don't know we'll see. The boy is out now; come and dine with us at two pot-luck. Well, so she is no more! Heigho!
"You're a sight for sore eyes!" "Come up and see us any time. You'll have to take pot-luck, but you're always welcome." "There are as many chances to get rich in real estate as there ever were if you only knew where to find them." "I'd rather have a good horse than all the automobiles made."
"Tell him to be sure and bring Emily with him. I cannot ask you to take pot-luck with us." "No, I thank you; I have just breakfasted. I do not keep such early hours as I did at Barragong. We turn night into day in these lands of civilization, and for a change it is remarkably pleasant. But how do you take to Scotch fare after Australia?" asked Mr.
And when the parson thus invited him to pot-luck, he smiled with a kind of lofty complacency; for Mrs. Dale enjoyed the reputation of having what her friends styled "her little tempers." And, as well-bred ladies rarely indulge "little tempers" in the presence of a third person not of the family, so Dr. Riccabocca instantly concluded that he was invited to stand between the pot and the luck!
Larry, in his loneliness, had fallen into the habit of frequenting No. 6; of "taking pot-luck," of "dropping in," or of "turning in," all of which courses had been urged upon him by his captor, Dr. Mangan. Mangan's early experiences, there was always good luck in the pot, and to spend a peaceful evening over the fire, smoking, and listening to the famous Mangan Quartet.
Lawford will take pot-luck with us, for it is just his own hour; and indeed we had something rather better than ordinary for this poor lady lamb and spinage, and a veal Florentine." The surgeon started as from a dream, and joined in his wife's hospitable request, to which Lawford willingly assented.
Madame Blumenthal goes thither this afternoon to spend a few days, and she allows me to accompany her. Give me your good wishes; you shall hear of the result. One of the diversions of Homburg for new-comers is to dine in rotation at the different tables d'hote. It so happened that, a couple of days later, Niedermeyer took pot-luck at my hotel, and secured a seat beside my own.
'I beat Lord Murdoch five games to nothing, he said. It was now nearly two years since the morning when old Matthew Bennett had announced to an audience consisting of Katie and a smoky blue cat, which had wandered in from Washington Square to take pot-luck, that he was the King of England. This was a long time for any one delusion of the old man's to last.
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