I heard you tell the Doctor so.
I wasn't a goin' to stay here alone with those Morphers.

I'd rather die first." With a dramatic gesture which was perfectly consistent with her character, she drew from her bosom a few limp green leaves, and, holding them out at arm's length, said in her quick vivid way, and in the queer pronunciation of her old life, which she fell into when unduly excited: "That's the poison plant you said would kill me.

I'll go with the play-actors, or I'll eat this and die here.

I don't care which.

I won't stay here, where they hate and despise me! Neither would you let me, if you didn't hate and despise me too!" The passionate little breast heaved, and two big tears peeped over the edge of Mliss's eyelids, but she whisked them away with the corner of her apron as if they had been wasps.
"If you lock me up in jail," said Mliss, fiercely, "to keep me from the play-actors, I'll poison myself.