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"Awa'! awa'!" he cried, an implacable face against their whining protestations "Awa', or I'll gie ye the gairde! If I was my uncle Erchie, I wad pit an end to your argy-bargying wi' hail frae a gun!" But to Annapla it was, "Puir deevils, it's gey hard to gie them the back o' the haun' and them sae used to rougher times in Doom. What'll they think o' us?
'A going-about body was selling them in a cart, my mother begins, and what followed presents itself to my eyes before she can utter another word. Ten minutes at the least did she stand at the door argy-bargying with that man. But it would be cruelty to scold a woman so uplifted. 'Fifteen shillings he wanted, she cries, 'but what do you think I beat him down to? 'Seven and sixpence?
"If this argy-bargying about votes for women makes you turn up your nose at bonny flowers that a decent fellow sends you I'm sorry for you it's just tempting Providence to scorn good mercies like this. I'll away and take the fish-pie out of the oven." It was strange that as soon as her mother had left the room she began to feel differently about the roses.
"There's an awful argy-bargying at Little Vantage," said Ellen, "I wonder what's going on." When they crossed over the burn and turned into the road that led back to the farmhouse they found the dykes plastered with intimations of a sale of live stock. "Ah, it's a roup! Old Mr. Gumley must be dead, poor soul!"
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