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"I'd ruther take a lickin' than to say it, but I reckon you'll have to come along with me, Bertie," he began soberly, laying a big-knuckled hand on my shoulder. "It all came out in the meetin' to-day, and the d'rectors 're sayin' that you hadn't ort to be allowed to run loose any longer." The high desk stool was where I could grab at it, and it saved me from tumbling over backward. "Go with you?"
She and Aronette struck up a warm friendship, though her pa wouldn't have allowed it I spoze if he hadn't seen how much store we all sot by Aronette. We got real well acquainted with Elder Wessel and Lucia; and her proud pa wuz never tired of singin' her praises or ruther chantin' 'em he wuz too dignified to sing.
The house wuz a big square one with a large front yard with some Pollard willers standin' in a row in front on't, through which the wind come in melancholy sithes into the great front chamber at night where Faith slept, or ruther lay.
The other time Eliphalet spoke was to ask Mr. Barbo to direct him to a boardinghouse. "I reckon," Mr. Barbo reflected, "that you'll want one of them Congregational boarding-houses. We've got a heap of Yankees in the town, and they all flock together and pray together. I reckon you'd ruther go to Miss Crane's nor anywhere." Forthwith to Miss Crane's Eliphalet went.
Love I wanted and admirin' I wanted, but no pity; that thar set me broilin'. But now I'd e'en a'most ruther have pity than love; 'nd I thank God most o' all that, in my pride and in my stren'th, and not wantin' no help an' gittin' mad at the thought of it all'as He pitied me, an' He pitied me cl'ar through to the end.
We feel in such circumstances that we had ruther be mistook than to have them sweet posies disturbed and desecrated.
Miss Lacey spoke more in sorrow than in anger; she was conscious that the object lesson he was now receiving would undo many of her faithful exhortations. He directed an elaborate wink at the crown of her abased shade hat. "Thought I'd ruther go swimmin'," he returned. Miss Martha turned the leaves of her paper with a loud rustle.
"Very good. I didn't expect it of you." "Didn't expect me at all, did you?" "If I had I should not have remained here." He cleared his throat. "I know all about bees, but I didn't know befo' that a butterfly could sting. But I'd ruther be stung than to have no attention paid to me at all." She arose to go away, but he intercepted her.
There's a representative from each of the societies in town to act with you and advise." "I'd ruther try to steer a raft of lashed hen-coops from here to Bonis Airs and back, under a barkentine rig," snapped the Cap'n. "I know the kind o' critters they be. We won't get nowhere!" "I had to put 'em onto the committee," apologized the people's representative.
And he wuz very handsome from his mouth up, very: his mouth wuz ruther weak. It wus a case of love at first sight, which I believe in considerable; and she couldn't help lovin' him, women are so queer. I had always said that when Cicely did love, it would go hard with her. Many's the offers she'd had, but didn't care for 'em.
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