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"I'll cover your thirty," said young Hill; and so it went from one to another in tens and fifteens and twenties, till within half an hour I had entered three hundred and fifty dollars in my book, with Ashley yet to hear from, which meant fifty more. It was Bill's hour of triumph. "Boys," he said, with solemn emphasis, "ye're all white. But that leetle pale-faced gel, that's what I'm thinkin' on.
With the exception of one hundred dollars found in the basket of the prisoner, she had only five copper pennies in her purse, when so unexpectedly arrested, that it was impossible she could have secreted anything.
And and we'll never have to choose any more, will we, James?" she finished fervently. The Elephant's Board and Keep On twelve hundred dollars a year the Wheelers had contrived to live thus far with some comforts and a few luxuries they had been married two years.
"Did you not know when the check for five hundred dollars came back to my father's bank that it had been raised to five thousand dollars?" The Captain reeled, and came near falling. He clutched at the palm tree which sustained him until he regained his footing. "My God! And you have thought me the thief!" "What else could I think?" "I can't understand.... I met Col.
With ten thousand dollars he could get away into into another world somewhere, some world where he could forget; as he forgot for a moment this afternoon when the girl said to him, "It is never too late to mend." Now as he thought of her, he pulled his coat together, and arranged the rough scarf at his neck involuntarily.
Our Scheherezade kept on writing her stories according to agreement, so many pages for so many dollars, but some of her readers began to complain that they could not always follow her quite so well as in her earlier efforts. It seemed as if she must have fits of absence.
He found Sampson packing up his tools, he was to leave on the "Gull" the next morning, with the bill all ready, added up and written out on a bit of smooth shingle. It proved to be five dollars less than the sum which Noll held in his hand.
He had a vague but very assured conviction that Mr. Macy's innermost soul would have abetted and approved. He no longer worried about his future. He had the intention of accumulating several thousand dollars and then clearing out going east, back to France, down to South America.
For our expenses one hundred thousand dollars had been appropriated. I am not one of those who believe in lavish expenditures of public money by commissions.
But he had learned how to be economical, and out of that four dollars he went on saving money." She paused for breath, and to note how Martin was receiving it. His face was lighted up with interest in the youthful struggles of Mr. Butler; but there was a frown upon his face as well. "I'd say they was pretty hard lines for a young fellow," he remarked. "Four dollars a week! How could he live on it?
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