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Now, it's my idea that, long's he's bound to be a pauper, he might's well be treated as a pauper. Let's send him to the poorhouse." "But," says I, "he owns his place down there by the shore, don't he?" All hands laughed that is, all but Cap'n Benijah. "Own nothing," says the cap'n.
But he sat there darkly, and by and by she put the kettle on and, in the most ordinary manner, made tea and spread their table. "Come," she said to him. "Supper's ready. We might's well draw up." He did glance at her then, as if she had surprised him, and she smiled, to give him confidence.
No wonder, with that devil inside whispering to him and hounding him on no wonder he said things and he trembled here and dared not follow out that thought and was afraid he might do things. But she shook her head, at his offer of taking the child. "You might go an' cut a slice o' ham," she said wearily. "It's 'most dinner time. We might's well have that as anything."
Tessie had never been told to exercise systematically for her body's good, or her mind's. She went in a spirit of unwholesome, brooding curiosity and a bitter resentment. Going to France, was she? Lots of good she'd do there. Better stay home and and what? Tessie cast about in her mind for a fitting job for Angie. Guess she might's well go, after all.
"Guess you do somethin' for it," said Enoch, wisely. "She'd do it jest th' same if I didn't," declared Lot, yet with perfect good-nature, as though the Widow Breckenridge's vigorous applications of the beech wand was a part of existence not to be escaped. "Gran'pap says I might's well be hung for an ole sheep as a lamb, so in course I do somethin' for it mostly."
"Yeou might as well try ter raffle off a white elephant." "Pshaw! of course not. But a fine fiddle like that a real Cremona will bring a pretty penny in the city. There, Walky, roll that barrel right into this corner behind the bar. I'll have to put a spigot in it soon. Might's well do it now. 'Tis the real Simon-pure article, Walky. Have a snifter?" "On the haouse?" queried Walky, briskly.
One afternoon, while they were all at tea, Reuben Gray said: "Now, Ishmael, my lad, Hannah and me are going over to spend the evening at Brown's, who is overseer at Rushy Shore; and you might's well go with us; there's a nice lot o' gals there. What do you say?" "Thank you, Uncle Reuben, but I wish to read this evening," said the youth. "Now, Ishmael, what for should you slave yourself to death?"
"It's a fact: Eben Javash, that went out better'n a year ago, hez got back, and he wuz at the next diggins an' heerd all about it. 'T seems the officers ketched Brown, an' Jim Hockson gave 'em thirty thousand dollars to pay them an' the bank too, and then they let him go. Might's well ha kept his money, though, seein' Brown washed overboard on the way back.
She shut the door carefully behind her. Mr. Pepper labored frantically with the pipe. "No use to shake it any more till you get the hammer," advised Keziah. "Might's well talk while you're waitin'. What was it you wanted to tell me?" Abishai drew one hand across his forehead, leaving a decorative smooch of blacking on his perspiring countenance.
Family half starved most of the time, so they used to tell. The boy, Nathan, he up an' said he couldn't stand it; said he might's well be a Roman Catholic, because then he would be certain of a full meal once in awhile, but as it was every day was fast day. So he run away down to Boston an' became a sailor. The Colonel never saw him again, because he was lost at sea on his second voyage.
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