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Here is the very latest Among the Monkeys of New Guinea, ten dollars, reduced to four-fifty. The manufacture alone costs six-eighty. We're selling it out. Thank you, Judge. Send it? Yes. Good morning." After that the customers came and went in a string. I noticed that though the store was filled with books ten thousand of them, at a guess Mr. Sellyer was apparently only selling two.
For this she had been paying a dollar and a half a week, and owed for the three she had spent in the hospital. Fortunately, she still had eleven dollars between herself and starvation. After paying out four-fifty the remainder might suffice until she found more work. She was weary beyond endurance and yet sleep would not come to her, as happens often to the overtired.
Henochstein, another member of the real-estate fraternity, was in intimate conference with Harris Rabin. "I think we got him going," he was saying. "My wife seen Mrs. Perlmutter at a Kaffeeklatsch yesterday, and she told her I made you an offer of forty-eight four-fifty for the house.
I donned my simple blue dress, cost four-fifty and Aunt Grace made it. I wore my white kid slippers and stockings. My re-debut ever hear the word? was worth the exertion. Andy's face shone as he came to meet me. His mother did not know me. "'I am Miss Starr, I said. 'The one and only. "'Why, you sweet little thing, she said, smiling, without the cloud.
But when you want a wagon-load of grub and there ain't no one sells provisions cheaper than I do, beans four-fifty, bacon sixteen cents, flour a dollar-ninety, everything as reasonable you haul it clean across the desert from Bender. That easy adds a cent a pound on every ton you pull, to say nothin' of the time. Well, what I want to know is this: Does Einstein sell you grub that much cheaper?
"Did you hear me ask him what he paid for that ready-made pine door he claimed to be working on when he saw the assault?" The prosecutor recalled the incident and nodded. "Well, he said ten dollars and I knew he was a liar. A door like that don't cost but four-fifty!" It is, perhaps, too much to require a knowledge of carpentry on the part of a lawyer trying an assault case.
The special has gone wrong between Kenyon Junction and Barton Moss." "And yet there is no siding, so far as my memory serves me, between the two stations. The special must have run off the metals." "But how could the four-fifty parliamentary pass over the same line without observing it?" "There's no alternative, Mr. Hood. It must be so.
With ready will and quick mental selection she scattered her meager four-fifty per week with a swift and graceful hand. Indeed, as she sat in her rocking-chair these several evenings before going to bed and looked out upon the pleasantly lighted street, this money cleared for its prospective possessor the way to every joy and every bauble which the heart of woman may desire.
Neither did Felix feel too happy in his sister-in-law's presence; but the gray top-hat instinct had kept him going there, for one ought to keep in touch with one's brothers. He replied to Stanley: "DEAR STANLEY: "Delighted; if I may bring my two youngsters. We'll arrive to-morrow at four-fifty. "Yours affectionately,
"'Then, Miss Jess Hardy, he said, with his eyes twinkling as though he were giving an Apostolic benediction at a Vanderbilt wedding, 'if you'll bring me your four-fifty we'll close the deal. "'Perhaps it would be as well to leave papa out of this, I hinted. 'I mean about telling him anything, you know' "'Oh, distinctly, he said. 'Fred's a bit old-fashioned and we must respect his prejudices.
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