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Howsomever, knowing that he's in that haste to meet his bride, and would, no doubt, grudge so much as a day spent between here and there on the sand, I'll jist give him his chice; being who he is, and a foine gintleman, he has his right to it. As for you" the tone instantly slipped into insolent indifference "ye can go by one or the other with yer bags."
"Well, take yer chice, if you ain't suited, Caleb Benson." "Wal, wal; don't git out to sea afore the tide's up, old woman." "Ole woman! Ole woman yerself, Caleb Benson!" retorted Clorinda. "Jes so!" answered the fisherman, seizing upon the largest steel pen to be found, and grinding it on the bottom of a bronze inkstand.
Well, the long and the short of that neglect was, they was forced to take off my arm there wasn't no chice in the matter above the elbow too. We happened at the moment to be at a fixed camping dépôt not one of them nasty movin' floes, but on a good sound spot and the expedition was under orders to march norrards when the thing happened to me.
I 'm ready to buck this yere Farnham at any game he wants ter play; damned if he can't take his chice, law er rifles, an' I 'll give him a bellyful either way." No one spoke for a long while, the three men apparently occupied with their own thoughts. To Winston it was a tragedy, picturesque, heroic, the wild mountain setting furnishing a strange dignity.
The Lord makes a many women, but now and again He turns out a few chice samples which won't bear copyin.. Miss Maryllia's one of them samples, and we must take 'er with prayer and thanksgivin' as sich!" Maryllia's first solitary dinner in the home of her ancestors passed off with tolerable success. She found something not altogether unpleasant in being alone after all.
"Brer Coon tuck de Fox off one side, he did, an' he say, 'Le's give 'im his chice, wheder he'd er ruther be tho'd in de fire or de brier-patch; an' ef he say de fire, den we'll fling 'im in de briers; an' ef he say de briers, den we'll fling 'im in de fire. So dey went back ter de Rabbit, an' ax 'im wheder he'd er ruther be tho'd in de fire or de briers.
"Powerful warm it be trampin' the road, from sunrise to sunset, when the dust lies thick and 'eavy, an' all the country's dry for a drop o' rain." "Wal, you aint got no cause to grumble at it," said a fat-faced man in very dirty corduroys. "It's your chice, an' your livin'! You likes the road, an' you makes your grub on it! 'Taint no use you findin' fault with the gettin' o' your victuals!"
"I'm naething but a raw recruit, my leddy; but gien I hed my chice, I wad be piper to my reg'ment." "How do you mean?" "I wad mak sangs. Dinna lauch at me, my leddy, for they're the best kin' o' wapon for the wark 'at I ken.
This served the purpose of warming the whole of the interior, as the other apartments opened into this room, which indeed also provided the only means of communication with the outside of the hut, the principal and solitary door of the establishment being here. "I'd sooner be smoked any time fur chice, myself, than friz!" said Mr Lathrope again, as if to provoke his opponent.
I sees it, Jarge, says I. 'An' d'ye see this un? says 'e, 'oldin' up another as like the first as one pea to its fellow. 'Ah! I sees that un too, Jarge, says I. 'Well, says Jarge, 'one's for 'im an' one's for me 'e can take 'is chice, 'e says, 'an' when we do meet, it's a-goin' to be one or t' other of us, 'e says, an' wot's more 'e looked it!
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