It was by the merest good luck in the world that I got into the insurance office--there we're two or three dozen applicants, and the gaining of the place by me was mere chance work.

If I hadn't been in the insurance office for so many years, and by that means become acquainted with most of the directors of the bank, I never would have attained my present comfortable place.

It makes me sick when I think of the miserable plight we would now be in, if that piece of good fortune had not accidentally befallen me." "Don't say accidentally," returned the wife, in a gentle tone, "say providentially.

He who sent us children, sent with them the means for their support.

It isn't luck, dear, it is Providence." "It may be, but I can't understand it," returned Mr.Bancroft, doubtingly.