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Here an old groom touched his hat, and said, curtly, "Too hot and fidgety, miss. I'd as lieve ride of a boiling kettle." Walter explained: "The poor thing is the victim of nervousness." "Which I call them as rides her the victims," suggested the ancient groom. "Be quiet, George. She would go sweetly in a steeple-chase, if she didn't break her heart with impatience before the start.
"Captain," protested the boy, with tears in his eyes, "I'd as lieve be shot now, sir, as to have you think I would hold any communication with the enemy, the warriors. As to that girl, the forward hussy came there herself. I took no notice of her waving her hand. I'd "
Why didn't ye go with it?" "Well, you see, I didn't have any ticket, an' the conductor, he told me to to he asked me if I wouldn't jest as lieve git off here." The man gave a low whistle. "Come along with me," he said, "it's little I can do for yez, but it's better nor the strate."
I danced with him last harvest-home; I know not why, unless for sheer good-nature; and now, forsooth, I am to have Boullin for ever thrust in my teeth. Bah! I hate a baker. I would as lieve take a butcher at once." Jacques Chapean also was offended.
"Why, Buckhurst," said he, "if you cannot do it, you can't, you know, Buckhurst: but I don't see why you should be a disgrace to the church more than another, as my father says. If I were but through the university, I had as lieve go into the church as not that's all I can say.
'You see, when I was digging for the treasure I was always a-going to find, it kept my heart up; but take out shovel and fill them in I'd as lieve dine off white of egg on a Sunday. So for six blessed months the heaps were out in the heat and frost till the end of February, and then when the weather broke the old man takes heart and fills them in, and the village soon forgot 'Jacobs' Folly' because it was out of sight.
I have lately been wandering about Norfolk, and I am sorry to say that the minds of the peasantry are in a horrible state of excitement; I have repeatedly heard men and women in the harvest- field swear that not a grain of the corn they were cutting should be eaten, and that they would as lieve be hanged as live. I am afraid all this will end in a famine and a rustic war.
"'Ah ha! cried the captain, suddenly changing his tone, 'I thought you were not a Frenchman, or you could not talk so well of English law, and feel so much for English liberty; and now, since that's the case, I'll own to you frankly, that in the main I'm much of your mind and for my own particular share, I'd as lieve the Admiralty had sent me to hell as have ordered me to press on the Thames.
"I heard Father say he thought he'd do that." "I think it's beautiful," said Midget, "but I'd just as lieve be riding, wouldn't you, Kit?" "Oh, I don't care. I like 'em both, first one and then the other." Kitty was of a contented disposition, and usually liked everything.
Kern took up his little daughter, and began to walk in the yard and sing as usual. "Well," ejaculated Aun' Sheba, "Missy Mara's call yis-tidy 'lieve my min' po'ful. I'se couldn't tromp de streets wid a basket now nohow. Missy Mara say she won' begin bakin' till I'm ready. She look too po'ly to tink ob it hersef. Lor! what a narrow graze she an de res ob dem hab! No won'er she all broken up.
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