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"Yes, ma'am; it is more than I earn, I know, but it is a great help to me." "And how much do you get as cash-boy?" "Three dollars a week." "So you actually receive nearly twice as much for a couple of hours in the evening as for the whole day." "Yes, ma'am." "What a pity Thomas can't have this chance," she thought. When it was nine o'clock, she said: "You need not wait any longer. Mr.
"Why not let your sister go to the poorhouse for a few years, till you are older, and better able to provide for her?" "I should be ashamed to do it, sir," he said. "I promised my mother to take care of Grace, and I will." "How much do you earn as a cash-boy?" "Three dollars a week." "Only three dollars a week! Why, that won't pay your own expenses!" said the old gentleman in surprise.
He receives but three dollars a week as a cash-boy, and has a sister to support as well as himself." "I am sorry," she said in an injured tone. "I hope you'll excuse my mentioning it, but I took the liberty, having been for twenty years in your employ." "To be sure! You were quite right," said her employer, kindly. "Perhaps I may be able to do something for your nephew, though not that.
Yet he rather liked to hear these legends of the iron kings that were told and retold on Sundays and holidays; these stories of palaces in Venice, yachts on the Mediterranean, and high play at Monte Carlo appealed to his fancy, and he was interested in the triumphs of these cash boys who had become famous, though he had no mind for the cash-boy stage.
Jennie gave everything she earned, and protested that she did not stand in need of anything, so long as the baby was properly taken care of. George secured a place as an overgrown cash-boy, and brought in two dollars and fifty cents a week, all of which, at first, he gladly contributed. Later on he was allowed the fifty cents for himself as being meet and just.
Order! and the Salesman said, Shut up, cash-boy! and the rest of the boarders kept on feeding; except the Master, who looked very hard but half approvingly at the small intruder, who had come about as nearly right as most professors would have done. You poets, the Master said after this excitement had calmed down, you poets have one thing about you that is odd.
"What makes him take such notice of a mere cash-boy?" said Mrs. Bradley to herself. "That boy reminds me of somebody. Who is it?" "Take a seat, Frank," said Mr. Wharton, pointing to a luxurious armchair on one side of the cheerful grate fire; "I will take the other, and you shall tell me all about yourself." "Thank you, sir," said our hero. His confidence was won by Mr.
Then he told some story about his poverty, and so worked upon your uncle's feelings that he hired him to read to him at five dollars a week." "Is this all the boy does?" "No; he is cash-boy in a large store on Broadway. He is employed there all day, and he is here only in the evenings." "Does my uncle seem attached to him?" asked John. "He's getting fond of him, I should say.
Pomeroy, and having occasion to go up to the city at once to see about insurance, he went to the store of Gilbert & Mack, and inquired for Prank. "Fowler? What was he?" was asked. "A cash-boy." "Oh, he is no longer here. Mr. Gilbert discharged him." "Do you know why he was discharged?" asked Mr. Pomeroy, pained and startled. "No; but there stands Mr. Gilbert. He can tell you." Mr.
There they could look down upon the world of traffic that never did anything in their shops, as far as we could see; and, still murmuring to themselves in a tongue that sounds untranslatable and a voice that was never known to rise above a stage whisper, they could at one and the same moment regard with scorn the Christian, keep an eye on the cash-boy, and make perfect pictures of themselves.
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