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"I'll be back in a moment," she said, as she left the room. When she returned she put out her hand. On the palm lay two bright American dimes. "What's this?" I asked. "The change." "Very good!" laughed Pembroke. I said nothing, but took out my wallet. In opening it to put in the dimes, something fell to the floor. It was Gretchen's rose. "What is that?" asked Phyllis, as I stooped to pick it up.
"I'm not going in to see the show to-night. I want to talk with you if you can get some one to take yore place here." "Say, whatta you think I am one o' these here Fift' Avenoo society dames? I'm earnin' my hot dogs and coffee right at this window. . . . Did you say two, lady?" She shoved two tickets through the window in exchange for dimes. Clay explained that his business was serious.
'Beer is the worst thing in the world for 'Ya, I know der liver. I haf no liver, und I shall not die. At least I will not die obon dese benny sdeamers dot haf no beer fit to trink. If I should haf died, I will haf don so a hoondert dimes before now in Shermany, in New York, in Japon, in Assam, und all over der inside bans of South Amerique.
The way she walked; poetry in motion ... the oil-witch ... two empires ... more millions than he had dimes.... "Oh, you're Barbara Warner, then." "Why, of course; but my friends call me 'Bobby'. Didn't you but of course you didn't you never read passenger lists. If you did, you'd've got a tingle, too." "I got plenty of tingle without reading, believe me. However, I never expected to "
During all those nine years since Penelope had come to her, frequent dimes and quarters, with an occasional half-dollar, had found their way into an old stone jar on the top shelf in the pantry.
The distance was short, and he was very hopeful. "Whoa, whoa dere," called out Otto, in a soothing voice, "don't you runs away agin dimes more, or py gracious I vill whip you so dot you vill want to die " While uttering the words he was advancing with the utmost haste. Feeling himself nigh enough to make the leap, he did so, and threw both arms around what he supposed to be he head of his colt.
This was repeated four times, and, the price of eggs having gone up a few cents in each interval, the little girl had sixty cents to put in her bank, which raised her total to one dollar fifty-nine. On her June birthday the family presented her with four dimes; the week after she sold a wooden squirt-gun to the neighbor woman's son for five cents.
Jerry's lazy broom finished the top step and began on the second. Then it occurred to him that it had been some time since he had investigated what was under the steps. He put down his broom while he knelt and applied one eye to one of the holes bored in the steps. The hole was big enough so if somebody dropped a dime just right it would go through. No dimes down there today.
"And brings two dollars for every one you spend." "Maybe," retorted the other, with a skeptical air. "But my game is still talk." "Talk gets dimes; print gets dollars," said his friend sententiously. "You have to show me." "Show you!" cried the Doctor. "I'll write your copy myself." "You will? What do you know about mining?" "Not a thing. But there isn't much I don't know about advertising.
While we were peeling the potatoes, Skinny came in and showed me three or four dimes and some pennies, and said he found them on the deck, when he was sweeping. He said, "I've been to every fellow in the troop and nobody lost any money. Are they yours?" I told him no and so did Brick and Charlie and we said he had better give them to Mr. Ellsworth.
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