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I told them sure I'd bring it that you promised the very hour! I didn't know it made any difference to you who finished 'em, just so they was done." "It was a misunderstanding, Johnny," said his mother, rising slowly, "but I'll keep my promise, of course." She went up-stairs, and in a few minutes came back with a five-dollar gold piece that she had taken out of a little box of keepsakes.
"So, if you'll consider this five-dollar gold piece the right thing," resumed Dobbins, "you're mightily welcome to it, and say, Frank you're a bully boy!" "How's that?" inquired Frank. "Oh, you know," asserted Dobbins. "Take it quick, before I change my mind." "Take the five dollars, you mean?" questioned Frank. "Exactly." "Why should I do that? You don't owe me anything." "Don't?" cried Dobbins.
"Curse my luck!" exclaimed Wilkinson, grinding his teeth together, as the last five-dollar bill he had with him passed into the hands of his very particular friend. There was more than "luck" against him, if he had but known it. "The fortune of war," smilingly replied the winner. "The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, you know.
Here is fifty cents from me, Co." "I'll give you fifty, Co," said her mother. "Me, too," said Flamingus. The other boys followed with equal contributions, Bud generously donating a five-dollar bill he had received that day for a solo at a musicale given by Miss Lyte. "Here's fifty cents from me," said the Boarder, who had remained very thoughtful during this transaction.
Grant's orders were to come at once; and he intended to obey them. "I'd wager a year's pay against a Confederate five-dollar note," said Sergeant Whitley to Dick, "that the man who laid that ambush was Slade. He'll keep watch on us all the way to Grant, and he'll tell the Southern leaders everything the general is doing. Oh, he's a good scout and spy."
Dad was buying some candy for me at a confectioner shop, of a beautiful Spanish woman, and when he asked how much it was, she bent over towards him in the most bewitching manner and breathed in his face and said, "Quatro-realis, seignor," which meant "four bits, mister," and he handed her a five-dollar gold piece, and went outdoors for a breath of fresh air, and let her keep the change.
Alessandro's eyes fastened on the gold. How he longed for an abundance of those little shining pieces for his Majella! He sighed as Mrs. Hartsel counted them out on the table, one, two, three, four, bright five-dollar pieces. "That is as much as I dare take," said Alessandro, when she put down the fourth. "Will you trust me for so much?" he added sadly. "You know I have nothing left now. Mrs.
Lilly's second song, "Mamma, Why Are You So Sad To-night?" went even better than the first, and it so pleased Robert Visigoth, who in those years had his ears to the ground of the daily audience, to hear them filing out, whistling and carrying it on little tra-la-las, that he called Lilly into his office the first day of the second week, to announce a five-dollar raise in salary.
And after she had looked in each drawer and in the closet at all his clothing, and had kissed the pillow on which his head had lain, she took her bag and went. She had left for him the ninety-five dollars and also eleven dollars of the money she had in her purse. She took with her two five-dollar bills and a dollar and forty cents in change.
She fixed her gaze upon the eyes looking through the hideous mask of paint and powder partially concealing the madam's face. "Well, are you going to be a good girl now?" said the madam. "I want to sleep," said Susan. "All right, my dear." She saw and snatched the five-dollar bill from the pillow. "It'll go toward paying your board and for the parlor dress.
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