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He said fool things to ease his ugly temper but he wound up his argument with the telling reminder that Green Valley couldn't afford to lose the fifteen-hundred-dollar yearly license tax. "Not only would we men lose our freedom and be a thirsty lot of wife-driven idiots but our taxes would rise." And that argument told. It had been overlooked somehow.
"It isn't only losing that fifteen-hundred-dollar license and losing outside trade but we'd be robbing an honest and respectable man of his livelihood," said Sears with his most ponderous air. An unwilling, sheepish grin ruffled every man's face and Seth said with a rasp: "Well, Sears, I wouldn't lose any sleep worrying about that honest, respectable man's livelihood if I were you.
On the other hand your ten-thousand-dollar man has a wider outlook. If you offer him fifty dollars for his vote on the board, he'd probably laugh at you." "Ah, yes," said Mr. Newberry, "I see the idea. A fifteen-hundred-dollar salary is so low that it will tempt a lot of men into office merely for what they can get out of it." "That's it exactly," answered Mr. Fyshe.
We don't, of course, expect to get a fifteen-hundred-dollar Cashmere, like Mrs. So-and-so, but we begin to look at hundred-dollar shawls and nibble about the hook. We don't expect sets of diamonds, but a diamond ring, a pair of solitaire diamond ear-rings, begin to be speculated about among the young people as among possibilities.
"And, to put a head on the whole business, I'm blessed if Tobias Loveland didn't get in with an automobile agent who was stoppin' in Orham and buy a fifteen-hundred-dollar machine off him. And the very next time Jonadab was out with the Queen on the Denboro road, Tobias and the widow whizzed past him in that car so fast he might as well have been hove to.
Upon the paper which she held in her hand was written a cancellation of the fifteen-hundred-dollar mortgage and a receipt in full for the loan itself, signed by Solomon Cobb. Dimly and uncomprehendingly she heard Emily trying to thank their visitor. But thanks he would not listen to. "No, no, no!" he shouted. "Go away and let me alone. I'm a wicked, condemned critter.
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