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To the mate's remark the skipper said "humph," and Gunter said that he was the unluckiest fellow that ever went to sea. "You're always growling, Jack," said Ned Spivin, who was fond of chaffing his mates; "they should have named you Grunter when they were at it." "I only wish the Coper was alon'side," said the skipper, "but she's always out of the way when she's wanted. Who saw her last?"
That's why I'm inclined to say that for rest and recreation I'll take an enemy. Whether our friend and brother, Mr. Douglass, was the luckiest or unluckiest man on earth, I've never been able to figger out. He personally explored the bottom of every old prospeck hole in the country. He was romantic by disposition, Pete was, and loved to go for walks at night.
Indeed, until my being finally settled, and made the Happiest Man upon earth by my union with the departed Saint who was the mother of my Lilias, it must be admitted that my commerce with the Sex was mostly of the unluckiest description. I have been used most shamefully by women; but it behoves me not to complain, seeing how much felicity I was permitted to enjoy in my latter days.
Have a night's consideration and come and see me to-morrow. I wish you good-night and more sense." Vane left alone, strolled onward moodily, his eyes bent on the ground. "In love, as I ought to be, said that scoundrel," he was muttering. "How does he know I'm not? But what's the good? Faith, I believe I'm the poorest devil in London and the unluckiest.
She let her eyes shine into his with a look that made up for the hand-clasp he would have claimed if they had been alone and how glad she was that they were not! The news filled her with the glow produced by a sudden cessation of physical pain. The world was not so stupid and blundering after all: now and then a stroke of luck came to the unluckiest.
"The wind of the shot, you rascal!" roared Private Dard: "look here!" and he showed the blood running down his face. The shot had actually driven a splinter of bone out of the sutler into Dard's temple. "I am the unluckiest fellow in the army," remonstrated Dard: and he stamped in a circle.
"I believe I am the unluckiest beggar that ever breathed. That oughtn't to have gone off for hours yet, and now it'll let 'em know we're gone, and that's all." I did not say anything, for I was too weak and troubled, and how I kept up as I did, I don't know to this day. The morning broke at last with the knowledge that we were three miles to the right of the tank Captain Dyer had meant to reach.
After a few more toasts, the Gazette observes "the night was wearing late, and the rest of the proceedings were obliged to be hurried through in rather a tumultuous manner." The unluckiest occurrence of all followed by Captain Basil Hall's mention of the word "politics," which "let slip the dogs of war," or at least led to much confusion.
The cards were furnished us, and with a fortune that varied little we played lansquenet until long past midnight. The fire died out in the grate, and the air grew chill, until at last, with a violent sneeze, La Vrilliere protested that he would play no more. Cursing himself for the unluckiest being alive, the fool bade me good-night, and left me seventy pistoles richer than when I had met him.
'Twas the unluckiest thing in the world that you and him should meet." "I had met Captain Cardew before, Bridget," I said coldly. "He had rendered me a service. I'm sure all that old trouble ought to be forgotten, and I think my grandmother is too good a Christian, and too reasonable to bear Captain Cardew enmity for something which was no fault of his."
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