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"My argyment is," put in Ebenezer Tolman, who knew how to lay dollar by dollar, "if he's willin' to do one thing for the town, he's willin' to do another. S'pose he offered us a new brick meetin'-house or a fancy gate to the cemet'ry! Or s'pose he had it in mind to fill in that low land, so 't we could bury there! Why, he could bring the town right up!
My friends, then, were still alive, and though I partly believed the truth of Silver's statement, that the cabin party were incensed at me for my desertion, I was more relieved than distressed by what I heard. "I don't say nothing as to your being in our hands," continued Silver, "though there you are, and you may lay to it. I'm all for argyment; I never seen good come out o' threatening.
"But suppose, for the sake of argyment as Shikspur says, that the stranger wos to ax ye wot ye know'd about Peroo, what 'ud ye say to that, lad?" asked Old Peter. "Wot would I say! Why, I'd ax him with a look of offended dignity if he took me for a schoolmaster, an' then may be I'd ax him wot he know'd about it himself an' krekt him av he wos wrong."
"I kind o' fancy the boys called 'em 'dippers'; but I guess this yarn don't call fer no argyment," he added, with a suspicion of his volcanic temper rising at the frequent interruptions. Then, as the other kept silence, he continued in his earnest way, "Guess that meetin'-house wus mostly empty. Ther' wus one feller ther' a'ready when I come.
The elder smoked on. "Why?" "Weel," the elder spoke slowly to the clouds, "I'm no obliged to quote chapter an' verse, but for the sake of argyment forbye should Janet marry on an Englisher when there's good Scotchmen running loose?" This was a "poser."
"Depends upon how he wags 'un." The glance of old Tugwell was stern, as he spoke, and his eyebrows knitted over it. "If for a yarn, to plaise children or maidens, or a bit of argyment about his business, or talk about his neighbours, or aught that consarns him why, lads must be fools, and I can smoke my pipe and think that at his age I was like him.
"Janice, here, an' me hev been havin' an argyment right along about that rum sellin' business " "About the drinking, at any rate, Walky," interposed Janice, gently. "Wal ahem! ya-as. About the drinkin' of it, I s'pose. Yeou said, Janice, that my takin' a snifter now and then was an injury to other critters as well as to m'self." "And I repeat it," said the girl confidently.
Did he save Pronto?... And didn't want you to tell me? Lem, something has happened. You're not like yourself." "Miss Collie, I reckon I'm nigh all in," replied Lem, wearily. "When I git this bandagin' done I'll fall right off my hoss." "But you're on the ground now, Lem," said Columbine, with a nervous laugh. "What happened?" "Did you hear about the argyment this mawnin'?" "No. What who "
That is, as how, roundin' out what I know about him, he's got a eye for a fine-lookin' lady. Which, against argyment, I maintain that Terry Temple girl is." "Guy Little," cried Packard sharply, "you're a fool! Maybe you know all there is about motor-cars an' gasoline. When it comes to females you're a fool."
When you're out of work and you can't afford other things, you goes without 'em, but the rent 'as to be paid whether you're workin' or not. 'Yes, that's enough, said Harlow impatiently; 'but you gets value for yer money: you can't expect to get a 'ouse for nothing. 'Suppose we admits as it's wrong, just for the sake of argyment, said Crass in a jeering tone. 'Wot then? Wot about it?
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