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One very aristocratic lady had invited them to dinner, and their hopes had been high but alas, while they were sitting by the fireplace, some one admired a thirty-thousand-dollar emerald ring which Mrs. Evans had on her finger, and she had taken it off and passed it about among the company, and somewhere it had vanished completely!
The other night I saw a couple of soldiers having a pleasant time in a shooting gallery, but what the president of the Blue Star Navigation Company wants with a thirty-thousand-dollar yacht beats my time. Why, he has more than thirty good vessels to play with all week, and yet he wants a yacht for Sunday! Skinner, my dear boy, that is wild, wanton extravagance."
There were tinklings of little bells, while humans called shrilly to vulgar officials along the wires. From a mass of incoherence the officials learned that some evil-hearted ruffian had entered the thirty-thousand-dollar garden and had stolen a priceless cat. Thus the outer world went hunting.
They only had a little thirty-thousand-dollar fire. I guess that squared up all balances due on Petacha." "Son, ain't you afraid to be turning loose such information?" Daylight gravely demanded. "Not on your life," quoth Jones. "They can't prove it. You could say I said so, and I could say I didn't say so, and a hell of a lot that evidence would amount to with a jury."
The other day she blew into the big jewelry store and wanted a thirty-thousand-dollar diamond necklace. The boss rolled over twice and wagged his tail. 'Yes, madam, said he; 'what kind? 'I dunno; just a thirty-thousand-dollar one. That's all he could get out of her. 'But tell me how you want 'em set, he begged. She looked bewildered. 'Oh, set 'em so they'll jingle, says she."
The rain swept up and roared on the roof, while all around was streaked gray. "Boy, there's your thirty-thousand-dollar rain!" shouted Anderson. But Dorn did not hear. Once he smiled at Lenore as if she were the good fairy who had brought about this miracle. In his look Lenore had deeper realization of him, of nature, and of life. She loved rain, but always, thenceforth, she would reverence it.
In the rear of the eighty-thousand-dollar cottage there was a thirty-thousand-dollar flower-garden an oppressively clean garden, where the big Jack-roses were as immaculate as a "mama's Lizzie-boy," and the well-bred, timid little violets seemed to long to play in the dirt, yet dared not because of the master-rule of "form."
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