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Bud, his lost love, we have been told, was buried hard by the Sapsea monument. If Grewgious visited her tomb, he was on the spot to help Edwin, supposing Edwin to escape. Unlikelier things occur in novels. I do not, in fact, call these probable occurrences in every-day life, but none of the story is probable.
'Now, I still think that for this box of matches to have escaped the wear of time for immemorial years was a most strange, as for me it was a most fortunate thing. Yet, oddly enough, I found a far unlikelier substance, and that was camphor. I found it in a sealed jar, that by chance, I suppose, had been really hermetically sealed.
"No, not on him, Morty; but concerning this forthcoming marriage, if it takes place, I dare say I must travel; I can't depend upon Dunroe's word." "Why, unlikelier things has happened, Mr. Norton. I think you'll be forced to set out." "Well, I only say that if Mr. Norton can prevent it, it won't happen.
And was anything likelier? was anything unlikelier? His foreign love denied to him, why, now he devoted himself to money: money the last consideration of a man so single-mindedly generous as he! But he must have money to pursue his contest! But would he forfeit the truth in him for money for any purpose? The debate on this question grew as incessant as the thought of him.
The Old Doctor had always, in his lifetime, been accounted a well-to-do man. . . . Very likely he had started this hoard in Bonaparte's days, and had gone on adding to it in the long years of peace. . . . It would certainly be a hundred pounds. It might be a thousand. One thousand pounds! But no not so fast! Put it at a hundred only, and daylight would be the unlikelier to bring disappointment.
'In that 'ere little compliment respectin' the want of hock'erdness in ladies, Sammy, replied his father. 'You don't think she's fallen in love with you in consekens o' that, do you? said Sam. 'More unlikelier things have come to pass, my boy, replied Mr. Weller in a hoarse whisper; 'I'm always afeerd of inadwertent captiwation, Sammy.
And was anything likelier? was anything unlikelier? His foreign love denied to him, why, now he devoted himself to money: money the last consideration of a man so single-mindedly generous as he! But he must have money to pursue his contest! But would he forfeit the truth in him for money for any purpose? The debate on this question grew as incessant as the thought of him.
Upon my veracity I must bring that about." "Why, then, yer Reverence," replied Phaddhy, who was now a little softened, and forgot his enmity against Parrah More for the present, "unlikelier things might happen." "It won't be my fault," said Parrah More, "if my son Ned has no objection."
All the more does one revel in his account of what led up to the moment when Johnson 'to support himself, laid hold of one of the posts at the side of the foot pavement, and sent forth peals so loud that in the silence of the night his voice seemed to resound from Temple Bar to Fleet Ditch. No evening ever had an unlikelier ending. The omens were all for gloom.
We may get off scot-free. Unlikelier things than that have come to pass. Even if we shouldn't, and the chances fail, we can but be worked off once: and when it's well done, it's so neat, so skilful, so captiwating, if that don't seem too strong a word, that you'd hardly believe it could be brought to sich perfection. Kill one's fellow-creeturs off, with muskets!
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