Chance! Had ever man a greater chance than that sailor lad?
He had gone wrong as a boy.

Those old folk, because their daughter loved him, gave him the greatest chance a man can have--the chance to retrieve a bad start, to make up for a false step.

How many men have that?
How many men are there, handicapped as, no doubt, he was, who find those to put faith in them?
If a man may not take advantage of sicca chance as that he needs no better chance again than a rope around his neck with a stone tied to it and a drop into the Firth o' Forth! I've a reminder to this day of that wee hoose at Gatehouse-of-Fleet.
There was an old fashioned wag-at-the-wa' in the bedroom where I slept.

It had a very curiously shaped little china face, and it took my fancy greatly.

Sae, next morning, I offered the old couple a good, stiff price for it mair than it was worth, maybe, but not mair than it was worth to me.