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You can't think what I suffered whilst I was young." "How long was you young?" "Only two weeks. That was plenty for me. Laws, I was so lonesome! You see, I was full of the knowledge and experience of seventy-two years; the deepest subject those young folks could strike was only a-b-c to me. And to hear them argue oh, my! it would have been funny, if it hadn't been so pitiful.
It is easy enough to quote instances of extraordinary ignorance, to argue that, because a man who is in the trenches shocks his chaplain by his real or affected neglect of the facts of Bible history or the dogmas of the Church, therefore he has never had an opportunity of learning them; that same man would probably not give a much more impressive account of the profane subjects in the school curriculum.
Oh, that was all a joke, Satanta explained. The Indians who had captured the white chief were young and frisky. They wished to see whether he was brave. They were simply testing him. It was sport just a joke. Will did not offer to argue the matter. No doubt an excellent test of a man's courage is to hit him over the head with a tomahawk. If he lives through it, he is brave as Agamemnon.
Likewise a team should know the strong points on the other side as well as on its own, and come to the platform primed with arguments to meet them. In intercollegiate contests, to insure this fore-knowledge of the other side the speakers as part of their preparation meet men from their own college who argue out the other side in detail and at length.
If I didn't sell 'em the stuff, somebody else would. Why shouldn't I take the money, when it's there?" "There's no use in my trying to argue it with you, Dad. We're miles apart." "That's just it," sighed the older man. "Oh, well! You couldn't help my paying the damages if Pierce wins," he suggested hopefully. "Yes. I could even do that."
"Armand Monnier, you are not quite sober to-night, or I would argue with you that question. But you no doubt are brave: how and why do you take the part of a runaway?" "How and why? He was my brother, and you own you murdered him: my brother the sagest head in Paris. If I had listened to him, I should not be, bah! no matter now what I am."
Meanwhile the "crude little piece" returned to her old home, somewhat shaken in mind by what had happened to her. It never entered her little head to argue with the august officers of the trust company, who stood to her as the sacred symbol of Authority. She must buy a trunk, pack it, and be at the Eclair Hotel in B by noon on the following Friday. Those were her orders.
Marcella tried to argue, grew vehement, and said bitter things for the sake of victory, till at last Aldous, tired, worried, and deeply wounded, could bear it no longer. "Let it be, dear, let it be!" he entreated, snatching at her hand as they rolled along through a stormy night.
Now and then these ravishing melodies are permitted to reach to mortal ears: chiefly in dreams to the sick and sorrowful, for Fairies have great compassion on such, and allow them a distant taste of this, the most exquisite of their enjoyments. There was no more discussion that night, nor did they argue much the next morning.
The reply was stolidly given. "What! do you wish to be idle?" "I will work in your house, if you like; but I can pay my own fare in the cars, and I won't be a servant." There was so much sullen determination in her manner that Mrs. Rexford did not attempt to argue the point. "Take her, mamma," whispered Winifred. "How ill she seems! And she must be awfully lonely in this great country all alone."
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