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Farther on was the roulette wheel, and Fairchild strolled to it, watching the others to catch the drift of the game before he essayed it, playing with pennies where, in the old days, men had gambled away fortunes; surrounded by a crowd that laughed and chattered and forgot its bets, around a place where once a "sleeper" might have meant a fortune. The spirit of the old times was abroad.
Out of it, with difficulty, he produced a sixpence. 'Art tha partial to goodies, Louie? he said, dropping his voice almost to a whisper, and holding up the coin before her. Louie nodded, her eyes glistening at the magnitude of the coin. Uncle Reuben might be counted on for a certain number of pennies during the year, but silver was unheard of. 'Tak it then, child, an welcome.
So the music and the dance went on, even little dots of girls and boys shuffling about in a stiff-legged fashion, with applause from all the windows, and at last a largesse of pennies as many as five altogether for the musicians. And the sun fell lovingly upon the pretty scene.
But where is the girl?" She gazed around the spacious chamber as she spoke, but could not find Katterle. True, a dim light pervaded the whole apartment, and Sister Hildegard, referring to it, added "The light keeps many of the patients awake, and we have a better use for the pennies which the oil and chips cost.
It's a good joke, and I admit that it's on me. But it has been carried far enough. If you please -no more pennies!" "But pennies are all I happen to have, sir," protested Dave Darrin, stepping forward. "Don't you want me to pay you for the music, sir?" "Oh, well," replied the principal, with a sigh, "I'll take 'em, then."
The white gloves, her prayer-book and candle-cloth, a few pennies in her bead purse; and 'twas done. The child was constantly twisted and turned and examined from every side.
They are often reproached for their want of wise economy; but never was more keen ingenuity, more close balancing of pennies against provisions than a great many of them practice and teach.
The beggar himself, a rather sniveling specimen, finally realizing what a figure he was cutting with his song and thanks, emptied the coins into his hand and with an indescribably wry expression, half-uncertainty and half smile, exclaimed, "I'll have to thank you as long as you keep putting pennies in, I suppose. God bless you!" My brother came away smiling and content.
She began to solicit contributions from her friends, and saved her pennies. Dr. Alexander Graham Bell advised Tommy's friends to send him to Boston, and the trustees of the Perkins Institution agreed to admit him to the kindergarten for the blind. Meanwhile opportunity came to Helen to make a considerable contribution to Tommy's education.
The children from the tenements in the alley and across the way were having a game of blindman's-buff, groping blindly about in the crowd to catch each other. They hailed Nibsy with shouts of laughter, calling to him to join in. "We're having Christmas!" they yelled. Nibsy did not hear them. He was thinking, thinking, the while turning over his four pennies at the bottom of his pocket.
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