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Updated: May 1, 2025
"You see," said Cousin Jack, who was, as usual, Director General of the celebration, "you see, Mehitabel, thirteen is said to be an unlucky number." "And must I be unlucky all the year?" asked Marjorie, in dismay. "On the contrary, my child. We will eradicate the unluck from the number, we will cut the claws of the tiger, and draw the fangs of the serpent.
It would be just like luck, or rather unluck, if something happened this particular night. Dick's knowledge of diamonds was so small that it could be hardly said to exist, and he now began to have nightmarish visions of huge sums of money thousands of pounds perhaps, lost through his folly. To be sure, no one knew that he had put the diamond back in the tree.
There were thousands of tons actually thousands of tons of tuna in that three-mile stretch of ruffled water, but I could not catch one. It was a settled conviction. I was reminded of what Enos, the Portuguese boatman, complained to an angler he had out, "You mos' unluck' fisherman I ever see!"
Then she looked on him friendly, and said: Thou art out of heart as now, my friend. Fear not, for thou shalt without doubt see thy speech-friend again. Moreover here is a ring which she set upon my finger, bidding me give it thee. And she held it out unto him. He took the ring, and said: Yea, it is best that I have it of thee, lest unluck come thereof.
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