I will dig the fields sooner than be worse treated than a dog.

My mind is made up.

I have left my father's house never to return.

I am going forth into the world to see what may befall me there, certain that nothing can be worse than what I have left behind." "Thou hast run away from thy cruel father?
Marry, that is good hearing!" cried Kate, with sparkling eyes.

"I marvel we had none of us thought of that plan ourselves; it is excellent." "It seemed the one thing left--the only thing possible.