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"W-wouldn't if I was you." "What do you mean?" "What I say. T-told Levi Dodd to dismiss her, didn't you?" "Yes, I did." Isaac Worthington had lost in self-esteem by not saying so before. "Why? Wahn't she honest? Wahn't she capable? Wahn't she a lady?" "I can't say that I know anything against Miss Wetherell's character, if that's what you mean." "F-fit to teach wahn't she fit to teach?"
If Jethro had glanced at his companion, he would have seen the senator was shaking with silent and convulsive laughter. "All the time I talked to him I didn't see a muscle move in his face," Jethro continued, "so I started in again, and he looked looked looked right at me. W-wouldn't wink don't think he winked once while I was in that room.
"F-farmers and merchants elected him," remarked Jethro, as though stating a fact. Worthington coughed. "It is probable that I made a mistake in going to Sutton," he admitted. "If I w-wanted to catch a pike, w-wouldn't use a pin-hook." "I might have known," remarked Worthington, after a pause, "that Sutton could not have been elected Speaker without your influence."
If Jethro had glanced at his companion, he would have seen the senator was shaking with silent and convulsive laughter. "All the time I talked to him I didn't see a muscle move in his face," Jethro continued, "so I started in again, and he looked looked looked right at me. W-wouldn't wink don't think he winked once while I was in that room.
The painter seized his pad and pencil and with a few strokes, guided by inspiration, sketched the costume then and there and held it up to Jethro, who blinked at it in astonishment. But Jethro was suspicious of his own sensations. "Er well Godfrey g-guess that'll do." Then came the involuntary: "W-wouldn't a-thought you had it in you. How about it, Cynthy?" and he held it up for her inspection.
"F-farmers and merchants elected him," remarked Jethro, as though stating a fact. Worthington coughed. "It is probable that I made a mistake in going to Sutton," he admitted. "If I w-wanted to catch a pike, w-wouldn't use a pin-hook." "I might have known," remarked Worthington, after a pause, "that Sutton could not have been elected Speaker without your influence."
"D-done it if I hadn't b'en here, wouldn't you?" "Yes, and more too," said Mr. Batch. "W-wouldn't make much difference to you if I wasn't here would it?" "Great Scott, Jethro, what do you mean?" cried the railroad president, in genuine alarm; "you're not going to pull out, are you?" "W-wouldn't make much odds if I did would it, Ed?" "The devil it wouldn't!" exclaimed Mr. Balch.
"D-done it if I hadn't b'en here, wouldn't you?" "Yes, and more too," said Mr. Batch. "W-wouldn't make much difference to you if I wasn't here would it?" "Great Scott, Jethro, what do you mean?" cried the railroad president, in genuine alarm; "you're not going to pull out, are you?" "W-wouldn't make much odds if I did would it, Ed?" "The devil it wouldn't!" exclaimed Mr. Balch.
W-wouldn't touch 'em. H-had over a hundred bushels on hand n-new variety. W-what's that feller's name down to Ayer, Massachusetts, deals in all kinds of seeds? Ellett that's it. Wrote to Ellet, said I had a hundred bushels of Red Brooks to sell, as fine a lookin' potato as I had in my cellar. Made up my mind to take what he offered, if it was only five cents. He wrote back a dollar a bushel.
"D-done it if I hadn't b'en here, wouldn't you?" "Yes, and more too," said Mr. Batch. "W-wouldn't make much difference to you if I wasn't here would it?" "Great Scott, Jethro, what do you mean?" cried the railroad president, in genuine alarm; "you're not going to pull out, are you?" "W-wouldn't make much odds if I did would it, Ed?" "The devil it wouldn't!" exclaimed Mr. Balch.
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