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"David," said Dr. Lavendar in a business-like way, "would you mind driving for me? I want to look over my note-book." "Driving?" said David. "Oh, my!" His cheeks were wet but his eyes shone. "I don't mind, sir. I'd just as lieves as not!" "So that's the youngster we're going to adopt, is it?" Mr. Pryor said; then he looked at Helena through his curling brown lashes, with open amusement.
Should you just as lieves tell me?" She lifted her head until it held a noble pose. Her eyes shone brilliantly, though indeed they were doves' eyes. "I'll tell you," said she "I couldn't have told you ten years ago, no, nor five! but now it's an old woman talking to an old man. I was given to understand you were tired of me, and too honorable to say so. I don't know what tale was carried to you"
"No," said Alice, with entire good nature, "whoever is ELECTED president, you WILL be, Rebecca you're that kind so you might as well have the honor; I'd just as lieves be secretary, anyway."
It exhilarated the schoolmaster, and he lavished stick after stick on the ravening flames. The maple hardened into coals brighter than its own panoply of autumn; the delicate bark of the birch flared up and perished. "Miss Susan," said he, "don't you want to see all the people in the world?" "Oh, I dunno! I'd full as lieves set here an' think about 'em.
Gilbert, and I don't mean he shall know it, but I'd just as lieves tell you. Do you know why Mr. Rockwell gave me this place?" "No; I've wondered a little, not at that, but at his giving you so much higher pay than boys usually receive." "Then I'll tell you."
This was almost unbelievable to the others, who scattered like robins if they heard his step. And she had greater courage than this; she had, in fact, audacity! for she said she was willing this the others told each other in awed tones she said she had "just as lieves" walk right up and speak to Mrs. Maitland herself, and ask her for twenty cents so she could treat the whole crowd to ice-cream!
"I don't know but what he'd as lieves be slartered to once as to starve, an' be hunted down out in the lots. Besides, there a'n't nobody as I knows of would like a hog to be a-rootin' round amongst their turnips and young wheat." "Well, what I shall do with him I don't know!" despairingly exclaimed Miss Lucinda. "He was such a dear little thing when you brought him, Israel!
"Well, I don't know; you see I don't hurry 'em up, because it's haying, and I and my men, we'd just as lieves work out of doors a part of the time as not. We don't mend shoes much. We make 'em mostly." "Oh that's better still; would you make me a pair?" "Well, we don't do that kind of work. We work for the dealers. We make the shoes that they send down South for the niggers.
Why, Orrin, he raised nine on 'em, and every darned critter's as poor as Job's turkey, to-day: they a'n't no good. I'd as lieves ha' had nine chestnut rails, an' a little lieveser, 'cause they don't eat nothin'." "You don't know of any poor person who'd like to have a pig, do you?" said Miss Lucinda, wistfully.
Mulberry Sellers with an office! laws goodness, you know what that would be like. Why, they'd come from the ends of the earth to see a circus like that. I'd just as lieves be married to Niagara Falls, and done with it."
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