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Updated: May 10, 2025
Evelina stood transfixed by the sight of the parcel beside her plate. Ann Eliza, tremulously engaged in filling the teapot, lifted a look of hypocritical surprise. "Sakes, Evelina! What's the matter?" The younger sister had rapidly untied the string, and drawn from its wrappings a round nickel clock of the kind to be bought for a dollar-seventy-five. "Oh, Ann Eliza, how could you?"
I will give him my answer before morning." Simon said to the company: "Men, will you sell your wheat to Ambrose Doane at a dollar-seventy-five?" The question broke the spell of silence. There could be no mistake that the proposal was successful. A chorus of acclamations filled the room. "Very good!" said Simon. "I will talk with Ambrose Doane and try to make him trade with us."
"Already there has been much talk about our grain. I will waste no words now. For myself and my sons I pledge that we will not sell one bushel of grain less than dollar-seventy-five. What do the others say?" One by one the men arose and repeated the pledge, each raising his right hand. Ambrose began to be aware that the stolidity masked a high emotional tension.
I will offer to take the job for twenty-five cents a day from each man, which will make a dollar-seventy-five, less than what I'm getting now as a buddy. If we get thirty men to come in, then I'll take ten cents a day from each, and make the full three dollars. Does that seem fair?" "Sure!" said Mike; and the others added their assent by word or nod. "All right.
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