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As for the lieutenant, he declares that he had as lief come in contact with a Paixhan gun as an author with his "infernal pen." He understands pistols, small swords, rifles, and even cannons, but he can't stand up when pen-work is the order of the day. The odds would be too much against him.
I would as lief submit; my work to a publisher as I would to a select committee of authors. At all events, the publisher is not my rival; and I suspect he is the best judge, after all, of a book, as an accoucheur ought to be of a baby." "Upon my word, nephew, you pay a bad compliment to your father's Great Work, which the booksellers will have nothing to do with."
And I told Fairbanks that George looked as though he worked hard, and wanted to be respected." "But tell me, what of his error, Mr. Frisbie? I insist upon knowing." "You shall know, Squire Fabens. I would as lief you would know as not; you will not breathe it where it can hurt Ludlow. You know we are bound to lift up the fallen not to crush them." "But he has not fallen, I hope!
But let us hear the passionate Cassius, who is full of individualities himself, and ready to tyrannize with them, but somehow, as it would seem, not fond of submitting to the 'single self' in others. 'Well, honour is the subject of my story. I can not tell what you, and other men, Think of this life; but for my single self, I had as lief not BE, as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself.
I have a notion I can tell a poet that gets himself up just as I can tell a make-believe old man on the stage by the line where the gray skullcap joins the smooth forehead of the young fellow of seventy. You'll confess to a rhyming dictionary anyhow, won't you? I would as lief use that as any other dictionary, but I don't want it.
Jee-rusalem! but she wer goin' to have the cap'en up on court-martial, an' the steward tarred and feathered, an' the Lord knows what! Then, too, ther wer that b'y of hern, squalling like a frog in a fit, the durned young imp, I'd lief have skinned him!
"Morrissy." "Mr. Morrissy. Mr. Chittenden, are you willing to join the union?" Bennington smiled as he plied this question. "Not I! My word, I'd as lief starve as become a union man, and under such a master. I prize my manhood and independence above all things. I have already refused to join. I never take back what I say." "Neither do I, Mr. Chittenden." Bennington stood up.
And yet this woman, who scrupled not to say that she would as lief stick an Indian as a hog, and who walked all the way from Marblehead to Boston to see the Quaker woman hung, and did foully jest over her dead body, was allowed to have her way in the church, Mr. Richardson being plainly in fear of her ill tongue and wicked temper. November 13.
"Not unless you tell me what I ask. Why won't you? Is it a secret? Pooh! I'd just as lief ask Mr. Tom Meredith myself, if I could see him. Never mind, don't tell me, if you don't want to. You're not my only confidential friend; there are others." "Who are they, Euny? I flattered myself I was your only really, truly intimate friend not even excepting your husband!" "Oh, what a naughty speech!
"And do you know, the shortest route to the settlement in question?" Tom answered affirmatively. "Include a horse for the boy's use, captain, and see that he is well provided for. He may be of use in piloting the way. At any rate he is a noble-spirited fellow, and deserves consideration at our hands. How many men will you need, captain?" "I'd as lief have forty as more, if I can have my pick."
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