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Now, I might trust sharks and swordfishes and sea-serpents to be frightened and forget about their nat'ral enemies, but I never could trust a gray turtle as big as a cart, with a black neck a yard long, with yellow bags to its jaws, to forget anything or to remember anything. I'd as lieve get into a bath-tub with a live crab as to go down there.
Rollo was not speaking lightly; but Gyda as she went back to her seat only answered, 'Ye can always ask. 'Whom would you bid me ask, Gyda? I would about as lieve come to you as anybody, if I wanted counsel. 'Give yourself to God, lad, and ye'll know there's but One to ask of. And there's but One before that, if ye want real help.
"Won't ye come inside an' sot ye cheers?" invited Parish, but the elder man shook his head as he wiped his perspiring and dust-caked face on the sleeve of his shirt. "Ther breeze is stirrin' tol'able fresh out hyar," suggested Aaron, "an thet old walnuck tree casts down a right grateful shade. I'd jest es lieve talk out hyar ef hit suits ye."
"But if you persist in this way, Nat, don't you know what it means?" "None better. It means going back to what you helped me out of the life that nearly killed me." "And you'd rather " "I'd rather that a thousand years before I'd sponge on you another day.... But, on the level, I'd as lieve try the East River or turn on the gas.... What's the use? That's the way I feel." "That's fool talk.
And that's what I tell your ladyship!" cries Lady Maria with a wave of her hand. "Suppose my letters are published to all the world to-morrow? Apres? I know they contain things I would as lieve not tell. Things not about me alone. Comment! Do you suppose there are no stories but mine in the family? It is not my letters that I am afraid of, so long as I have his, madam.
She consented at first; but demurred when this enthusiast explained to her that she must wear the tunic, toga, and sandals of the ancients. "Why, I had as lieve be presented in my smock," said she, with mediaeval frankness.
"Oh, stop a minute! They are mine I lost them mine, I tell you lost mine!" She reaches the head of the table and flings her arms around the boy, crying: "My Hendrik!" The boy hesitates a second, startled by the sudden wildness of her caress. Then he presses his hot little face in her neck. "Lieve moeder!" he murmurs. "Where was you? I looked."
You wouldn't think birch bark would be so heavy; would you?" "I don't mind it. Here give me one of your bundles; I'd just as lieve carry it as not. Give me the one out of your left wing. I know that one must be tired." "'Deed I won't. You've got enough to carry. I'll throw my left hand bundle away before I let you lug it." "Oh, don't throw it away!
I ain't achin' none to see the mill burn, but I'd as lieve it was Peavey Jo's as any one else." "I'd like to know," Merritt repeated, "who set that fire." The Ranger made no answer, but walked off to where his horse was tethered and rode away. The other party without a moment's delay struck off to the trail leading to the mill. The distance was not great, but Wilbur had lost all count of time.
Randolph; and I expect it for mine." Mr. Randolph resumed his walk. "Daisy has got some things in her head that must get out of it. I would as lieve not have a child, as not to have her mind me." Mr. Randolph passed out upon the verandah, and continuing his walk there, presently came opposite the windows of the library. There he saw Daisy seated at the table, reading.
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