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He raised it, as if to pledge the speaker. "Master Ellis," he said, "y' are for vengeance well it becometh you! but your poor brother o' the greenwood, that had never lands to lose nor friends to think upon, looketh rather, for his poor part, to the profit of the thing. He had liever a gold noble and a pottle of canary wine than all the vengeances in purgatory."
"Why, it will make his old place worth ten dollars to one," said the official to the interpreter. "'Tis not for de worse of de property," said the interpreter. "I should guess not," said the other, whittling his chair, "seems to me as if some of these old Creoles would liever live in a crawfish hole than to have a neighbor" "You know what make old Jean Poquelin make like that? I will tell you.
"Oh, nay! nay! nay!" cried Gerard, awaking from the stupor into which this thunderbolt of tyranny had thrown him. "He shall go with you on the instant. I'd liever part with him for ever than see a hair of his dear head harmed Oh, sir, oh, my lord, give a poor boy but a minute to bid his only friend farewell! he will go with you. I swear he shall go with you."
"There's none I'd liever have shake me by the hand than yoursilf, Ned," said Battersleigh, "the more especially by this rayson, that ye've nivver believed in ould Batty at all, but thought him a visionary schamer, an' no more. Didn't ye, now, Ned; on your honour?" "No," said Franklin stoutly. "I've always known you to be the best fellow in the world." "Tut, tut!" said Battersleigh.
I'd liever kill myself for loving such a thing as THOU. Go thy ways, man, and let me go mine." In her passion she dropped her cultivation for once, and went back to the THOU and THEE of her grandam. He colored up and looked spiteful enough; but he soon recovered his cynical egotism, and went off whistling an operatic passage.
I want to fight the Spaniards. Though I am a gentleman's son, I'd a deal liever be a cabin-boy on board your ship." And the lad, having hurried out his say fiercely enough, dropped his head again. "And you shall," cried Oxenham, with a great oath; "and take a galloon, and dine off carbonadoed Dons. Whose son are you, my gallant fellow?" "Mr. Leigh's, of Burrough Court." "Bless his soul!
I am heartily glad on it, and so will Carry be." "I knows nowt about that," said the miller; "but I mean to go, and that's all about it. I ain't a been to Salsbry these fifteen year and more, and I shan't be there never again." "There's no saying that, father," said Fanny. "And it ain't for no pleasure as I'm agoing now. Nobody 'll s'pect that of me. I'd liever let the millstone come on my foot."
"Thou hast made the cart for me, good Luke," said she, "'Twas much. I did ill to let thee draw me too; we can afford to pay some poor soul for that. I love my rides, and to carry little Gerard; but I'd liever ride no more than thou be mocked fort." "Much I care for their tongues," said Luke; "if I did care I'd knock their heads together. I shall draw you till my mistress says give over.
He disna make much count o' giving the Lord your tongue, and ay hauding the De'il by the hand ahint your back. And the o'er gude folks disna like that. They'd liever keep friendly wi' baith." "Then you think the promises were not made to be sat on, Sam?" said I, feeling much diverted with Sam's quaint way of putting things. Sam settled the cream-jug and sugar-bowl before he answered.
And then there is the church of the Maccabees, and the cauldron in which they and their mother Solomona were boiled by a wicked king for refusing to eat swine's flesh." "Oh, peremptory king! and pig-headed Maccabees! I had eaten bacon with my pork liever than change places at the fire with my meat." "What scurvy words are these? it was their faith."
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