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That concludes the first page. Eighty-five lines, altogether, on that page, including three headlines. About fifty of those lines, as one perceives, deal with local matters; so the reporters are not overworked. The other half of the second page is made up of two paragraphs under the head of "Miscellaneous News."
She broke into the only remaining bill in her pocket, leaving a five-cent tip beside her saucer, and pouring, with quite a little jangling, one dollar and eighty-five cents back into her purse. In the hallway of the Home she encountered Miss Scullen, hurrying with a sheaf of papers in her hand. "Oh yes, Lilly, I want to speak to you." "Yes?" "Have you made different arrangements?
The man who accumulated the store must have been an individual of a very enterprising nature, for there were great piles of strong, solid wooden cases packed to the brim with doubloons and pieces-of-eight; two hundred and eighty-five gold bricks, weighing about forty pounds each, every brick encased in the original raw-hide wrapper in which it was brought down from the mines, now hard and dry and shrivelled; quite a large pile of rough, shapeless ingots of gold and silver, conveying the suggestion that at various times large quantities of gold and silver plate and jewellery had been run through the melting pot; and, finally, a leather bag containing not far short of a peck measure of gems of every conceivable description, all of the stones being cut, and evidently taken from pieces of jewellery of various kinds that had probably been broken up and melted.
With somewhat unsteady fingers he inscribed his name at the bottom of the paper, and handed it to Bart. "You take that," he directed. "Why, this is a receipted bill for the damage done to your statue," said Bart. "Eighty-five dollars just so." "But I haven't paid it!" "You needn't. Serious mistake I see that," said the colonel. "That is, I see it now. Satisified you didn't mean any harm.
It will give me pleasure" her lids drooped to illustrate finality "to make this garment for the value of the material, which will be " her lips smiled amusement at the bagatelle "between seventy and eighty-five dollars no more." She ceased. Mary felt uncomfortable. Why should she accept such a favor at the hands of this poseuse? Stefan, however, saved her the necessity of decision.
The crew consisted of forty-one seamen, twelve marines, and nine servants these, with the officers and the scientific men of the expedition, made up a body of eighty-five persons.
The Woman's Union of the Church of England Temperance Society, with Rev. Canon Ellison as President, is also in a flourishing condition. Eighty-five branches have been formed, also a "Servants' Branch," a "Branch for young women engaged in houses of business," and a "Branch for girls at restaurants and railway refreshment bars."
Twenty-five dollars, remember! and soon, that I don't lose the use of it too long. As for your money and the watch, I've nothing to do with them. I've got along without a watch for eighty-five years, and I never wore as smart a coat as that in my born days. Young men understood how to save, in my time."
Whittier was still to write nearly two hundred more poems, for he lived to be eighty-five, and he composed until the last. But his creative period was now over. He rejoiced in the friendly recognition of his work that came to him from every section of a reunited country. His personal friends were loyal in their devotion.
One day he arrived at the end of his road to find that the rider who should have gone out on the trip with his mail, had been killed in a fight, so he at once volunteered for the run to Rocky Ridge, a distance of eighty-five miles, and arrived at the station even ahead of time.
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