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Another battalion has cut in ahead of us, and we must perforce wait, snapping our fingers with impatience, like theatre-goers in a Piccadilly block, whose taxis have been held up by the traffic debouching from Berkeley Street. "Luckily the curtain doesn't rise till five-fifty," observes Captain Wagstaffe.
Or I heard what a scandal it was that lambs actually brought five-fifty, and the Government at Washington, D.C., setting back idly under the outrage! Then I heard, with perfect irrelevance to Herman Wagner, that she wouldn't have a puncher on the place that owned his own horse. Because why? Because he'd use him gentle all day and steal grain for him at night.
Clark, after swearing that she wouldn't weaken and encourage them in their outrageous demands, went and paid five-fifty think of it! practically a dollar a day for unskilled work and, of course, her food and room and a chance to do her own washing right in with the rest of the wash. HOW MUCH DO YOU PAY, Mrs. "Yes! How much do you pay?" insisted half a dozen.
There was no color now in Hugh's face, and his voice trembled as he asked: "Who bought him?" "Harney, in course, bought him for five-fifty. I tells you they runs him up, somebody did, and once, when he stood at four hundred and fifty, and I thought the auction was going to say 'Gone, I bids myself." "You!" and Hugh stared blankly at him.
"We tried waiting for raises before," she answered. "I know, but " "There aren't going to be any buts," she answered decidedly. "But six dollars a week " "Is six dollars a week," she broke in. "We must live on five-fifty, that's all." "With steak thirty cents a pound?" "We won't have steak. That's the point. Our neighbors around here don't look starved, and they have larger families than ours.
Forty-eight dollars for six weeks! She would not have enough for books and tuition. Besides, Nancy Ellen had boarded with a family on Butler Street whose charge was only five-fifty.
'Who's that? he said, pushin' inter the crowd, and like a mad dog yelled out five-fifty, and then he set to cussin' who 'twas biddin' ag'in him. I hearn them 'round me say, 'That fetches it. Rocket's a goner, when I flung the halter in Harney's ugly face, and came off home to tell you.
Already he knew the whole story of Rod and the hospital. "Yes that's why I'm bothering you," said she. "You needn't pay but five-fifty. I can only let you off a dollar and a half my bit and the captain's. We pass the rest on up and we don't dare let you off." "Oh, I can make the money," Susan said hastily. "Thank you, Mr. O'Ryan, but I don't want to get anyone into trouble."
This was what Musq'oosis wanted, but nothing of his desire showed in his face. "Too small," he said. "Small nothing!" cried Mahooley. "Those horses are bred in the country. They will thrive on shavings. They run out all winter." "How moch wit' wagon and harness?" asked Musq'oosis indifferently. "Six hundred and fifty." "Wa!" said Musq'oosis. "You t'ink you got race-horses. I give five-fifty."
Toland, a plump, merry, handsomely dressed woman, was anxious to carry off her tall daughter in time for some early boat. "DO hurry, Barbara! Sally and Ted may be on that five-fifty, and if Dad went home earlier they'll have to make the trip alone!" At the doorway they found that the street was almost dark, and foggy. Much discussion of cars and carriages marked the breaking- up.
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