sarkumstances

Updated: May 5, 2025

But almost as quickly he recovered himself, and, with a polite but deprecating bow, said, "For God sake, sah! I admit de sarkumstances is agin me, but de simple fack is dat I'm temper'ly occupyin' de place of an ole frien', sah, who is called round de cornah." "And I'm devilish glad of any fact, George, that gives me a chance of having my hair cut by Colonel Pendleton's right-hand man.

Bret Harte - A Ward of the Golden Gate