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Uncle Eb drew out his wallet with trembling hands, his fine old face lit with a deep emotion. David looked up at him as he wondered what joke was coming, until he saw his excitement. 'Here's twenty thousan' dollars, said Uncle Eb, 'a reel, genuwine bank check! Jist as good as gold. Here 'tis! A Crissmus present fer you 'n Elizabeth. An' may God bless ye both! David looked up incredulously.
Finally he allowed that if he had some money he'd go West 'n take up some land, 'n git along like pussly 'n a flower gard'n. He ambitioned that if his mother 'd raise a thousan' dollars on her place he'd be sure to take care of the int'rist, an' prob'ly pay off the princ'ple in almost no time. Wa'al, she done it, an' off he went.
But not like you, Bigot. I have earned, this way and that, all that I might ever get from the King's coffers even this three hunder' thousan' francs, ten times told. But you, Bigot tush! why should we make bubbles of words? The Intendant get white in the face, but there are spots on it like on a late apple of an old tree. 'You go too far, Doltaire, he say.
"When the door close, the Intendant turn to M'sieu' Doltaire and say, 'What is the end for which you play? M'sieu' Doltaire make a light motion of his hand, and answer, 'For three hunder' thousan' francs. 'And to pay, m'sieu', how to pay if you have lost? M'sieu' Doltaire lay his hand on his sword sof'. 'From the King's coffers, as I say; he owes me more than he has paid.
Six thousan' dollars and interest on deferred payments." "Can you meet it?" "I couldn't if it was due now," was Tweet's reply. "Well, I'll see that you meet that payment," Jo said. "That will give you three months more leeway five months, counting from now and by that time things should begin to look up once more." Tweet heaved a great sigh of relief.
I think I must have trotted a thousan' miles, an' now I'm willin' to let Jim Hart paddle me the rest o' the way in a canoe." Tom Ross said nothing, merely showing his white teeth in a smile. "The Miamis are about," said Paul. "They have been around the lake, and on it, for days, looking for something." "We know it," said Henry.
Th' soap king, th' prune king, an' th' porous plaster king fr'm here won't stir up anny tumult in Paris this year. Th' chances ar-re th' prisidint won't know they're there, an' no wan'll speak to thim but a cab dhriver, an' he'll say: 'Th' fare fr'm th' Changs All Easy to th' Roo de Roo is eighteen thousan' francs, but I'll take ye there f'r what ye have in ye-er pockets."
"Then, for the sake of the dream an' the love of Mike, stick them gamblers up good and plenty. What's the good of dreamin' if you can't dream to the real right, dead sure, eternal finish?" "Fortunately, this isn't a dream, Shorty." "Then if you sell out for thirty thousan', I'll never forgive you."
'I always was, he says, 'too retirin' f'r me own good, he says. 'Spin out th' r-rest, he says, 'to make about six thousan' wurruds, he says, 'but be sure don't write annything too hot about th' Boer war or th' Ph'lippeens or Chiny, or th' tariff, or th' goold question, or our relations with England, or th' civil sarvice, he says.
Say, I only know tank-swimmin', an' bay-swimmin', but now I'm goin' to learn ocean-swimmin'. If I could do that I'd be so proud you couldn't come within forty feet of me. Why, Saxon, honest to God, I'd sooner do what he done than own a thousan' farms.
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