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Updated: October 11, 2025
"But tell me: how do you manage to have so many people to lunch in your office; your premises must be pretty extensive?" "I have the whole house; I was obliged to take it. I couldn't get another place that would suit me, and I thought I should be able to let the upper part; I did have a tenant for a little while, but he was obliged to leave. I believe I am the unluckiest fellow alive.
We all said he had the Devil's luck and his own, and as it was the kind of night for the Devil to be out and busy, I suppose he was looking over his shoulder, if anybody could have seen him. 'Ah! returned the gruff voice; 'for all old Luke's winning through thick and thin of late years, I remember the time when he was the unluckiest and unfortunatest of men.
These, Sir, are the chief Occurrences of my Life; and I will not dwell upon very many other Places I have been in, where I have been the strangest Fellow in the World, where no Body in the World had such Servants as they, where sure they were the unluckiest People in the World in Servants; and so forth.
After a short general conversation, he began, "My dear friend, here has happened the unluckiest thing in nature. You have made some advances, you know, to the charming Delia." "True," cried Prettyman, "I have bestowed upon her a few condescending glances. C'est une charmante fille." "Well," added sir William, "and the whole town gives her to you." "Parbleu! the town is very impertinent.
The young man slowly turned from the door, and fixing his eyes upon his father, advanced toward him with a kind of imperious insolence. "I should like to understand my position in this house," said he, with forced calmness. "Good God! Sir, a bootblack, if I choose!" returned his father, fiercely. "The unluckiest day of my life was when you came in here, Sir.
Unless you have tried to get about with a smashed leg you don't know what pain is, and I let out a howl like a bullock's. This was the unluckiest noise that ever I made in my life. Up to then Uma had stuck to her tree like a sensible woman, knowing she would be only in the way; but as soon as she heard me sing out she ran forward. The Winchester cracked again and down she went.
And turning, he found the Baron of Doom silent at his elbow, looking under his hat-brim at the road. "More trouble for the fesse checkey, Baron," said he, indicating the point whereto the troops had gone. "The unluckiest blazon on a coat," replied the castellan of Doom; "trouble seems to be the part of every one who wears it. It's in a very unwholesome quarter when it comes into the boar's den "
Then, secondly, there is the business of Mecklenburg; deplorable Business for Mecklenburg, and for everybody within wind of it, my poor readers included. We feared it was in the fates we might meet that man again; and so it turns out! The Unique of Husbands has proved also to be the unluckiest of Misgoverning Dukes in his Epoch; and spreads mere trouble all round him.
I like myself, certainly, and first best I will admit. After that " "After that?" he repeats. "I like you. No keep quiet, Charley, please, you'll upset the boat. Of course I like you aren't you my cousin haven't you been awfully kind don't I owe all this to you? Charley, I bless that night in the snow it has been the luckiest in my life." "And the unluckiest of mine." "Sir!"
Dalziel dazedly in the midst of deciphering a closely written and crossed page of thin foreign paper. "Stefan!" Milly choked on the name. "Oh, it's awful! His father has consented to his marrying me all right, but of course he'll go and and be killed now, and I shall never see him again! I'm the unluckiest girl that ever lived. And just when I thought everything was going to be so splendid."
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