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He picked out a fifty-dollar one, and talked and talked till he finally got the pore devil down to forty. Then he said: "'You'd sell two for seventy-five, wouldn't you? "'I reckon I might, the undertaker said, 'but you only want one. "'I'll need another 'fore many months, old Welborne said. 'My father-in-law won't last long.
They are my responsibility, not his," she claimed with visible irritation. "And now they're my responsibility, too until I land them in the penitentiary," he added cheerfully. From his pocket he took a billbook and selected two fifty-dollar bills. These he offered to Valencia. She stood very straight. "You owe me nothing, sir." "I owe you the hundred dollars you paid to get hold of Sebastian.
"I'm not short now. I'm flush, for which I thank Don John," said the sail-maker, as he placed two of the fifty-dollar bills on the desk, at which the captain was writing the receipt. The uppermost of the two bills was the mended one, for Leach thought if there was any doubt in regard to this, it ought to be known at once. If the nabob would take it, the matter was settled.
"You are right," and Bolton drew from his pocket two fifty-dollar bills, which he tendered to his host. Stephen Ray was fond of money, and he received the notes with satisfaction. "You have acted honorably," he said more graciously. "Are you located in the neighborhood, Mr. Bolton?" "No, in New York City. I am in a law office there." "I am pleased with your success.
One by one, as their names stood upon his list, Luck called the boys forward and with exaggerated deliberation peeled off fifty-dollar notes and one-hundred-dollar notes to take their breath and speech from them. With Billy Wilders, his friend in the bank, to help him, he had boyishly built that roll for just this heart-warming little ceremony.
When the bids had sunk to ten dollars, he added a five; some one raised him a three; he waited a moment, then flung in a fifty-dollar jump, and the sack was his at $1,282. The house broke out in cheers then stopped; for he was on his feet, and had lifted his hand. He began to speak. "I desire to say a word, and ask a favour.
At last Circumstance came to my help. It was in this way. Circumstance, to help or hurt another man, made him lose a fifty-dollar bill in the street; and to help or hurt me, made me find it. I advertised the find, and left for the Amazon the same day. This was another turning-point, another link.
Still his eyes were not open; he did not dream that he was in the hands of a professed gambler, and, hoping to get back what he had lost, and what he felt he really could not spare from his small amount of funds, he went again. "There!" said he, after they had been about an hour at the table, "there is my last fifty-dollar bill; change that, and I'll try once more."
"Permit me to present to you the boy Croesus the only one extant. His marbles are plunks and his kites are made of fifty-dollar notes. He feeds upon coupons a la Newburgh, and his champagne is liquid golden eagles. Look at him, gentlemen, while you can, and watch him while he spends thirteen thousand dollars for flowers!" "With a Viennese orchestra for twenty-nine thousand!" added Bragdon.
But she could copy a fifty-dollar model from memory down to the last detail of crown and brim. It was a gift that made her invaluable. The boy, Eugene, used to like to look at Julia Gold. Her hair was very black and her face was very white, and her eyebrows met in a thick, dark line.
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