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[英文] 《The Luck of Enoch Higgins 》作者:- Charles R. Tanner【EPUB】

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The Luck of Enoch Higgins Charles R Tanner Maybe luck isn’t just something that happens to you; it might be a sort of seventh sense or something. Anyway, Enoch Higgins thought so and invented a way of developing that sense. Whenever I hear anybody speak of luck, I think of old Enoch Higgins. There was a fellow who really had luck. And even when his luck appeared to be at its worst, it turned out to be good. But then, Enoch sort of stacked the cards, you might say; he was the first man in history to ring in a cold deck on the Fates. Let me tell you how it happened. In the first place, old Enoch Higgins was about the most exasperating man in our town. He had a way about him - testy, arrogant, domineering - none of those words described him com-pletely, I’m forced to fall back on that one word, exasperating. And poor Elmer Bidwell, who was engaged to Enoch’s daughter, Laura, was in a position which made him the butt of all of Enoch’s testiness, arrogance and domination. For Elmer had met Laura and fallen in love with her while still in school, and after graduation he had got a job as laboratory assistant in the big chemical works in our town, and lo and behold, the man he was assigned to work with was none other than old Enoch, his sweetheart’s father. It didn’t take Enoch long to find out that the young “sprout” that was going out with Laura was none other than his lab assistant, and after that he cheerfully blackmailed him into working many and many an hour overtime, in Enoch’s home. He’d
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