For the second time she has lost the porte-bonheur which her dying father put on her arm three-nearly four years before, and which was to bring her happiness.
"Erlach Court"
Ossip Schubin
In absolute terror, she went from shop to shop, wherever she had made a purchase, always with the same imploring question on her lips as to whether they had not found a little porte-bonheur with a pendant of rock-crystal containing a four-leaved clover,-a silly, inexpensive trifle, of no value to any one save herself.
"Erlach Court"
Ossip Schubin
"No, Justine, but I have lost a porte-bonheur,-a porte-bonheur that my father gave me a little while before he died,-and it is sure to mean some misfortune.
"Erlach Court"
Ossip Schubin