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He turned to the waiter, who regarded him unmoved, and asked for a check. "I'll get it," he said. Hodder drew out a ten dollar bill, and told him to keep the change. The waiter looked at him. Some impulse moved him to remark, as he picked up the rector's hat: "Don't let her put it over you, sir." Hodder scarcely heard him.
And here the conductor saw us for the first time. He started to come up in the cupola and the first thing he says was, "Fares, please." "How much?" says I. "Where you goin'?" says he. "To Havaner," I says. "Where did you get on?" "At Atterberry," I says. I began to look for Willie Wallace, but he warn't anywhere around. Then the conductor says, "One dollar."
I do not know what was charged for such accommodation at St. Paul, but I have come across large houses at which a single man could get all that he required for a dollar a day. Now Americans are great consumers, especially at hotels, and all that a man requires includes three hot meals, with a choice from about two dozen dishes at each. From St.
"Don't you remember buying something here a week ago?" he asked, in as stern a tone as his good nature would allow him to employ. "Yes," answered Ida, promptly; "I bought two rolls, at three cents apiece." "And what did you offer me in payment?" "I handed you a dollar bill." "Like this?" asked the baker, holding up the one she had just offered him. "Yes, sir."
Without resources, diplomacy cannot succeed. Our security assistance programs help friendly governments defend themselves and give them confidence to work for peace. And I hope that you in the Congress will understand that, dollar for dollar, security assistance contributes as much to global security as our own defense budget. We must stand by all our democratic allies.
"If that's an invitation, Dan, you're on," he answered gayly. "Just a minute, and I'll join you. I want to send a message to Sweeney." Without even looking at Meldrum to see the effect of this, Dave beckoned a Mexican standing near. "Tell the sheriff I want to see him here pronto. You win a dollar if he is back within an hour." The Mexican disappeared. Fox followed him.
"I have a large payment to make to-day" my father spoke with unusual decision of manner "and shall need every dollar that I can raise." "You gave sister a hundred dollars yesterday," said Jane, almost petulantly. Not a word of reply did my father make. I was looking at him, and saw an expression on his countenance that was new to me an expression of pain, mingled with fear.
Old Cheops, king of Egypt, spent vast sums of money, many long years, and the labour of myriads of his subjects, in erecting the Great Pyramid as a monument to his memory. But Mr. Jorullo, without his having to lay down a single Mexican dollar, and without any labour, either of his own or of his servants, had a magnificent monument raised to his memory in a single night.
"INCOME EXPENDITURES Two dollars Bone five cents Apples, cakes and sandwiches forty five cents Narcissi One dollar." It is delightful to relate that no one ever in all this world purchased more narcissi for one dollar than Felicia bought at the florist's stand that wonderful evening when she made her first expenditure from money she had actually earned.
That's because he's a Best Baby, an' the prize was five dollars, an' they gave him a dollar 'special, too, that we're goin' to put in the bank " Miss Theodosia held up her hand. "Begin at the beginning," she commanded. "Where have you been all this time? What on earth have you been doing?" "Showin' Elly Precious," flashed back Evangeline brightly. "You've heard o' Poultry Shows?
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