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"How's the roads down your way?" began Mr. Flandin again. "The roads? pretty well, I believe." "They're awful, up this way, to Bear Hill. I say, Miss Starling, how do you s'pose those people lives, in that village?" "How do they? I don't know." "Beats me! they don't raise nothin', and they don't kill nothin', 'thout it's other folks's; and what they live on I would jest like to know.
Thy figurin' books might ha' tould thee better nor that, I should think, else thee mightst as well read the commin print, as Seth allays does." "Nay, Mother," said Adam, laughing, "the figures tell us a fine deal, and we couldn't go far without 'em, but they don't tell us about folks's feelings.
Leaving out the fact of you being you, standing up there handling folks's feelings as you did, I want to know if you stand by them ideas you passed out?" "With all my mind!" "Not elocuting and acting?" "Surely not."
Why, I say you may do as you like about giving up any o' your corn-land afore your lease is up, which it won't be for a year come next Michaelmas, but I'll not consent to take more dairy work into my hands, either for love or money; and there's nayther love nor money here, as I can see, on'y other folks's love o' theirselves, and the money as is to go into other folks's pockets.
"The lad has guid bluid in him. She was a Gilchrist o' Linwood on Nithsdale. What she saw in your faither to tak' him I dinna ken ony mair than I ken hoo it cam' to pass that I am the mistress o' Walter Skirving's hoose the day. Come oot ahint my chair, lassie; dinna be lauchin' ahint folks's backs.
Alden Gobble, and Minister, there aint a word of truth in it from beginnin to eend. If ever I come near hand to him agin, I'll larn him but never mind, I say nothin. Now there's one thing I don't cleverly understand. If this here book is my "Sayins and Doins," how comes it yourn or the Squire's either? If my thoughts and notions are my own, how can they be any other folks's?
I. Little Blue Overalls II. The Boy III. The Adopted IV. Bobby Unwelcome V. The Little Girl Who Should Have Been a Boy VI. The Lie VII. The Princess of Make-Believe VIII. The Promise IX. The Little Lover X. The Child XI. The Recompense That is where we play I mean it is most pleasant there Little Blue Overalls climbed into a chair 'Fore I'd lean my chin on folks's gates and watch 'em!
The newspapers are always trying to persuade us to meddle in other folks's business; I say, take care of your own affairs! serve God and obey the laws of the country, and there won't be much going wrong with you! If you must read, read a decent book something that will last not a printed sheet full of advertisements that's fresh one day and torn up for waste paper the next!"
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