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Quote #10
'Can't get a bit of luck, can you?' Mannering said. 'That claim belongs to me! One of mine. Belongs to me' (III.3.103).
After (finally) doing Quee a good turn by shooing away some men who were harassing him, he is chuckling here about the fact that Quee has once again been assigned to one of his claims—which Quee might be inclined to see as very bad luck, since the last time Mannering's claim was a duffer. Quee's luck is about to change, though, since Staines soon agrees with Frost's idea to buy out Quee's indenture and give him a bonus.