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Thus the sensitive artist, for the sake of his ideal, will peg away at the forlorn hope, and, sustained by the spirit, may bring off the thousand-to-one chance. He has the capacity to endure to the end, while the man without this "drive" will weigh things up, eventually playing for safety and, incidentally, comfort.
"They did such blazing, glorious work as to burn to ashes those that opposed them. They arrived by course of miracle, by winning a thousand-to-one wager against them. They arrived because they were Carlyle's battle-scarred giants who will not be kept down. And that is what I must do; I must achieve the impossible." "But if you fail? You must consider me as well, Martin." "If I fail?"
When I looks at my clock I thinks they ought to lay a thousand-to-one against the mutt, after he starts a couple of times. Just then somethin' comes 'n' stands in front of me 'n' begins to make little squeaky noises. "'Are you Mr. Blister? it says. "I bats my eyes 'n' nods. "'I've got 'em again, I thinks. "'Oh, what a relief! it squeaks. 'I just thought I'd never find you.
A kind of pall had descended on the landscape, blotting out the sun. Of all the rotten sensations in this world, the worst is the realisation that a thousand-to-one chance has come off, and caused our wrong-doing to be detected. There had seemed no possibility of that little ruse of his being discovered, and yet here was Billie in full possession of the facts.
"Not on Sunday," she laughed; then went on, admiringly, "I hear you're very dashing in your speculations." "Then you've heard wrong, because I don't speculate," he returned. "I'm not a gambler except on certainties. I guess I disappointed a friend of yours the other day because I wouldn't back him on a thousand-to-one shot." "Who was that?" she asked, with an expression entirely veiled. "Corliss.
Chairs scraped and crashed to the floor, and an instant later the super and the master mechanic were in the room. "What's wrong, Bob?" Carleton flung the words from him in a single breath. Donkin told them. But his fingers were on the key again as he talked. There was still one chance, worse than the thousand-to-one shot; but it was the only one.
The great, unbelievable tragedy, the one thousand-to-one chance in life which he had ever taken! His hand almost fell to his side. There was a queer little silence. No one liked to ask him a question; no one liked to speak. It was the Duchess at last who murmured a few words, when the silence had become intolerable. "It is bad news?" she whispered. "It is very bad news indeed," Mr.
Manning and Greig looked at each other in blank bewilderment. In the light of Britz's explanation of the case, his confident assertion could only be regarded as a vain boast. Or was it the expression of a last, flickering hope, to which he clung desperately, like a man staking his last dollar on a thousand-to-one chance?
A kind of pall had descended on the landscape, blotting out the sun. Of all the rotten sensations in this world, the worst is the realisation that a thousand-to-one chance has come off, and caused our wrong-doing to be detected. There had seemed no possibility of that little ruse of his being discovered, and yet here was Billie in full possession of the facts.
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