" "You seem to have got your back up, old chap," said Thurston, referring to the bitter tones in which the last few sentences had been spoken; "but out with itwhat's your plan?" "Why, this: I'd no idea what a chance we should have when I stuck that note in our pillar-box, but here it is all ready made.

And though I'd rather cut out my tongue than say a single word against Laban Swiggart, I do feel that he'd no business to pick the best in the basket.

Shame filled her soul, and burned in her cheeks, when Stephen, lifting her as he would a child, and kissing her forehead gently, placed her again in her chair, and said, "My darling, I cannot let you do that.

Said Oline: "I'd no time to go running errands, and that's the truth;

I'd a good deal ruther do that than have a law-suit.

This naturally puzzled him, and so it would any man in his situation.

"Everybody hated bears, and hadn't much pity for them; still they were only getting their meat as other wild animals do, and we'd no right to set such cruel traps for them as the steel ones.

I'd a mind to tell him I should think slave-trading religion was a job done by contract, knocked up in a hurry.

Still, I never go; and intend to fight down the strange longing, and crush it; even as I would the unholy thought of self-destruction.

Nor would the Germans hesitate a moment to kill them as they would our horses.

So a little after nightfall Sir Tristram came to the King of Cornwall and his court, and he said to King Mark: "Here is your goblet which I have brought back to you; and I would God that some of your knights who are so much older than I had the courage to do for you what I have had to do."

I'd a notion you had forgotten me."

We cannot expect to get from them what we do not give ourselves, and it is idle to imagine that we can address them as we would a disobedient dog, and be answered in tones of dulcet harmony.

"I have frequently seen the mistress of a family in Virginia, with whom I was well acquainted, beat the woman who performed the kitchen work, with a stick two feet and a half long, and nearly as thick as my wrist; striking her over the head, and across the small of the back, as she was bent over at her work, with as much spite as you would a snake, and for what I should consider no offence at all.

"She'd a bit of heather in her belt,the true heather, not sticks like yon," pointing a contemptuous finger toward Katie's bonnet.

But the men with whom she had friendships knew better; and now and then a woman had the insight to be just to her, to see that she was quite capable of regarding a human being as objectively as she would a flower or a mountain or a star.

I am not drunk, I would ye should well know it; and yet I have drunk more than will do me good, for I might have had a pump set up with as good March beer as this was, and ne'er set up an ale-bush for the matter.

When they came to forests, now thinner, smaller, and less frequent, they welcomed them as they would an old friend.

I would a little rather you shouldn't know.

It was good fodder, and he treated it as he would hay, covering it over with bark in the woods.

I'd rather, a devilish sight, have those girls than the money you owe me.

What a wife for a lawyer she'd make!so long as she plotted for, and not against him.

And spare my lungs; who would the right maintain, And hath a tongue wherewith his point to gain, Will gain it in the end.

But he'd no papers on him to show his business, no private letters, no documents connecting him with Hull in any way: he hadn't even a visiting-card.

"But I'd no knowledge of it.