O'Sullivan and I both regarded it as a good omen that you should be the one ensign selected to go with us, but this miserable delay at Dunkirk, and the fact that we are on board the slowest tub in the fleet, seems to show that Dame Fortune is no longer going to exercise herself in your favour." "It looks like it, indeed," Desmond agreed.

"Still, I can't hold myself responsible for either the king's illness, or for our being allotted to this heavy-sailing craft; and, perhaps, even if fortune should not favour me any longer, she will do something for some of the others.
"She has always been favourable to Colonel Wauchop.

He has been through innumerable engagements.

Though many times wounded, he has never been seriously so, though scores of other officers have fallen in enterprises in which he has taken part.

In his case, fortune has not been fickle, and, as he is the chief officer on board, we must hope that she has not deserted him on this occasion.