I cannot pretend to recount all that he told me, but I gleaned from what he said that he was the genius who presided over the contretemps of mankind, and whose business it was to bring about the odd
accidents which are continually astonishing the skeptic.
I had often wondered how it was that Sir Oliver had such a very short tail; it really was only six or seven inches long, with a tassel of hair hanging from it; and on one of our holidays in the orchard I ventured to ask him by what
accident it was that he had lost his tail.
He agreed with Peter Donnelly that Jackson should have got damages, and he went farther and called the action heartless and cold- blooded that had turned the worker adrift after he had been made helpless by the
accident. Also, he explained that there were many
accidents in the mills, and that the company's policy was to fight to the bitter end all consequent damage suits.
How COULD they endure my happiness, if I did not put around it
accidents, and winter-privations, and bear-skin caps, and enmantling snowflakes!
A journalist obtained access to his laboratory in the capacity of laboratory-assistant, with the deliberate intention of making sensational exposures; and by the help of a shocking
accidentAll these summons proving ineffectual (for the captain had, by perverse
accident, betaken himself to a new walk that evening), Mrs Blifil declared she was seriously frightened.
In the fewest words, the Sergeant showed them the evidence of the footmarks, and told them that a fatal
accident must have happened to her.
A similar
accident happened to a French aeronaut, Madame Blanchard.
"I am but poor company altogether, sir," says he, "but I can think of nothing but this dreadful
accident, and the trouble it is like to bring upon quite innocent persons."
I feared an
accident now, for I knew no thief could steal him, yet even an
accident seemed incredible, he was always so cautious at crossings; also there could not possibly have been an
accident to Porthos without there being an
accident to something else.
There was an
accident and I received this blow to my head - only a trifling affair, after all.
Pollyanna was a little late for supper on the night of the
accident to John Pendleton; but, as it happened, she escaped without reproof.
If the wind held good, the distance might be traversed in five hours; if no
accident happened the sledge might reach Omaha by one o'clock.
And they might not even then have suspected it, but for the following little
Accident. Sophia happening one day to open a private Drawer in Macdonald's Library with one of her own keys, discovered that it was the Place where he kept his Papers of consequence and amongst them some bank notes of considerable amount.
I suppose all these years since his
accident will not exist for him."
