The occasion, Squire Gregory said, happened to him too often for him to distinguish it by the cut of his coat.
'I observe, nevertheless, Greg, that you have a black tie round your neck instead of a red one,' said the captain.
'Then it came there by accident,' said Squire Gregory.
'Accident! There's no such thing as accident.

If I wander out of the house with a half dozen or so in me, and topple into the brook, am I accidentally drowned?
If a squall upsets my ship, is she an accidental residue of spars and timber and old iron?
If a woman refuses me, is that an accident?
There's a cause for every disaster: too much cargo, want of foresight, want of pluck.

Pooh! when I'm hauled prisoner into a foreign port in time of war, you may talk of accidents.

Mr.Harry Richmond, Mr.
Temple, I have the accidental happiness of drinking to your healths in a tumbler of hock wine.

Nominative, hic, haec, hoc.' Squire Gregory carried on the declension, not without pride.