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They had just enough for car-fare and two "suppers Mexican," with ten cents left over. "That's for Richard's tip," said Blix. "That's for my CIGAR," he retorted. "You made ME give him fifty cents. You said it was the least I could offer him noblesse oblige." "Well, then, I COULDN'T offer him a dime, don't you see? I'll tell him we are broke this time."
You see, I didn't have any money for car-fare. After they began to light the lamps, I started to walk out here to the college. Everybody was eating supper, and I was all alone on the road with dark fields on both sides. I could not help thinking of those dreadful robbers and maniacs and tramps " "What?" cried the doctor. I drew a deep breath. "We told her," I said. "I I'm afraid we exaggerated.
Our family with $1500 income may safely pay $300 for rent, if that covers enough comfort and does not mean too much car-fare. The house may cost $3000 if built on the old lines, and if the land it is placed on is not too expensive.
As I sat smiling at the dream pictures the dear face evoked, my brain was busy with thoughts of the new home we would together build. I'd hoard every penny, I planned; I'd walk to save car-fare, practice all economies Wasn't that a face at her window?
Then with the frenzy of the desert back upon her she rushed up the stairs, out through the crowded store, and into the street, hatless and coatless in the cold December air. The passers-by made way for her, thinking she had been sent out on some hurried errand. She had left her pocketbook, with its pitifully few nickels for car-fare and lunch, in the cloak-room with her coat and hat.
I was everything that they were not; I was poor; I mixed with people whose names filled them with awe; my own was often given at first nights and things of that sort. In New York, the least snobbish of great cities, a man need have but a dress suit and car-fare if he be the right kind of a man, of course to go anywhere and hold up his head with the best.
Girls in my daughter's unfortunate position have got to marry position or money." "Well, I don't know about position, but when it comes to money why, George is the fellow that made the dollar-bill famous. He and Rockefeller have got all there is, except the little bit they have let Andy Carnegie have for car-fare." "What do you mean? He told me he worked for a living."
Every postage-stamp and car-fare had its important part in the school-teacher's system of economy; but she was quite happy, and her large face wore an expression of perfect peace and placidity. She was a woman who was not tortured by any strong, ungratified desires. Her allotment of the gifts of the gods quite satisfied her.
Then, too, he was in such a morbid state of mind about his debt that it looked positively wrong to spend five cents on a car-fare; even the small change in his pocket was not his own, and that, and hundreds of dollars besides, must be paid back in sixty days. Otherwise he supposed he would be bankrupt, which, to his simple mind, meant disgrace as well as ruin.
Hurstwood reasoned, when he neared the last ten dollars, that he had better keep a little pocket change and not become wholly dependent for car-fare, shaves, and the like; so when this sum was still in his hand he announced himself as penniless. "I'm clear out," he said to Carrie one afternoon. "I paid for some coal this morning, and that took all but ten or fifteen cents."
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