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"I'll be glad to give you a great deal more than your fare to New York," Harry said, in a broken voice. Evelyn was already fast asleep on his shoulder. He led the way down the stairs towards the other track. "I don't want nothin' else, except five cents for my car-fare. I can get a transfer, and it won't be more'n that," said the woman, following.
Of the many attractions the one which made the greatest appeal to Glen and the only one he could afford, for his sole fortune was the nickel he had for car-fare was the merry-go-round with its gaudy horses and its gurdy tunes. He bought a ticket and mounted one of the turbulent steeds with a little thrill of anticipatory pleasure.
"Ef church air wa'n't so bad fer my rheumatiz, I'd pay car-fare jest to see it onct. I was brung up Methodist though." This desire suggested to Amarilly's fertile little brain a way to make a contribution to John Meredith's pet missionary scheme, whose merits he had so ardently expounded from the pulpit.
'Peace, liar! You promised me your wife for Ophelia! Kloot's frown relaxed into a smile. 'Sure! The first wife I get you shall have. Pinchas gnashed his teeth. Goldwater's voice rose in a joyous roulade. 'I think you owe me a car-fare, said Kloot soothingly. Pinchas waved the rejoinder aside with his cane. 'Why does Hamlet sing? he demanded fiercely. 'Because it's Passover, said Kloot.
Into it were cast all her small economies: a car-fare when she walked instead of riding; a few pennies saved by taking a simpler lunch than she had planned, when in New York on business; the ten cents difference in the quality of a cap, ribbon, or a handkerchief, all these savings were dropped into the love purse, to be drawn out again to buy a new book for some friend too poor to get it herself; to subscribe to a paper for another; to purchase some little gift for a sick child, or a young girl trying to keep up a neat appearance.
She wrote her letters under different names, and even sent them from neighboring towns, and walked long distances, when she felt that she wanted to save car-fare, to post them. Once Maria met her as she was walking along with an evening paper in her hand, reading the reply to one of her letters, and Maria wondered at the expression on Gladys's face. She at once pitied, feared, and detested Gladys.
When Amarilly had faithfully pictured the service to the household, Bud's anaemic face grew eager. "Take me with yer, Amarilly, next time, won't yer?" he pleaded. "It's too fer. You couldn't walk, Buddy," she answered, "and we can't afford car-fare fer two both ways." "I'll take him to-night," promised the Boarder. "We'll ride both ways, so fur as we kin.
"During the building of The Temple," says Smith in his interesting life of Dr. Conwell, "a devoted member, who was in the bookbinding business, walked to his office every morning and put his car-fare into the building fund. Dr.
He was ruminating over his possessions one day, and wondering to what practical use he could put his collection; for while it was proving educative to a wonderful degree, it was, after all, a hobby, and a hobby means expense. His autograph quest cost him stationery, postage, car-fare all outgo. But it had brought him no income, save a rich mental revenue. And the boy and his family needed money.
'All the same, you might lend me a nickel for car-fare. Kloot thought his departure cheap at five cents. He handed it over. The poet went. An instant afterwards the door reopened and his head reappeared, the nose adorned with a pleading forefinger. 'You promise me all this? 'Haven't I promised? 'But swear to me. 'Will you go if I swear? 'Yup, said Pinchas, airing his American.
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