I don't believe in the old superstition that the number 13 is unlucky.
We had a lovely time in Scotland, but we were a bit unlucky with the weather.
We got a parking ticket but Pat and Keith didn't, we were just unlucky.
They were unlucky enough to be at the top of the mountain when the storm came over.
Spurling rejects this as an argument that blames some women, the 'lucky daughters', for denying marriage for their 'unlucky sisters'.
Attempts to compensate the initial unlucky ones in a subsequent divine realm would create further unfairness.
Thus, the hapless crier, for one unlucky moment, became the incarnation of a detested policy and paid the price for decisions made by superiors.
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