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"Ye canna thrash him for doin' what ye bid him. Set yer dog on me, if ye will, but dinna beat him when he does yer biddin'!" "I did not set him on yo', as you know," the Master replied warmly. M'Adam shrugged his shoulders. "I'll no argie wi' ye, James Moore," he said. "I'll leave you and what ye call yer conscience to settle that. My business is not wi' you. David!" turning to his son.
Once or twice she did think of "Argie" in New York, gone thither on some perplexing, hurried errand, which he had only half told her, and the half telling of which she had only half heard, and remembered that the heat must be "awful" there.
"Och, thim wor purty nice times whin he'd come in o' nights an' him an' Anna wud argie; but they're gone, clane gone, an' I'll soon be wi' thim." I bade farewell to Mary and took him to Belfast for a private talk. Every day for a week we went out to the Cave hill to a wild and lonely spot where I had a radius of a mile for the sound of my voice.
"Provoking," she said, tossing it down to the end of the sofa, "and neither Sylvie nor I can get into town in this heat, and Argie thinks it such a bother to be asked to go to Loring's." Just then Sylvie's step came lightly up the stairs. She looked into the large cool dressing-room where her mother lay. "I'm only up for my 'Confession Album'," she said.
But the diplomacy had been this: "There is one thing, Argie, I should really like Sylvie to have. It is getting to be almost a necessity, living out of town as we do." Mr. Argenter's other names were "Increase Muchmore;" but his wife passed over all that, and called him in the grace of conjugal intimacy, "Argie." Increase Muchmore Argenter.
"Oul' Father Finnegan, at Derryadd, useteh argie that the Garden iv Aden hed been furnent the Lake o' Killarney; an' no one dar' conthradict him," he remarked, with a smile. "But people larns till think fur theirselves when they're out theyre lone.
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