I'll soon clear it off.

Will that do ?" "Oh, thank you, thank you, Mr.Allen.It will more than do," said poor Mercy, who could not believe in such sudden good fortune; "but do you think you ought to buy it so quick?
Perhaps it wouldn't bring so much money as that.

I had not asked anybody except Deacon Jones." Mr.Allen laughed.

"If you don't look out for yourself sharper than this, Mercy," he said, "in the new place 'where you're going to live, you'll fare badly.

Perhaps it may be true, as you say, that nobody else would give you three thousand dollars for the house, because nobody might happen to want to live in it.