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Updated: May 15, 2025
All his wealth was the single half-dollar piece in his pocket, and there was only one way in which that coin could be increased to the sum he would need to buy that corner plot, where the soul of old Martin Ryder could sleep long and deep. From his brothers he would get no help. The least memory of those sallow, hungry faces convinced him of that. There remained the gaming table.
"Nothin' doin'," he began, "until " "Don't decide hastily," adjured the young man. "Take this coin." He forced a half-dollar into the reluctant hand of the decorator. "Nothin' doin' on account, either. Pay as you enter." "Only one of us is going to enter. The coin decides. Spin it. Your call," he said to the butterfly. "Heads," cried the butterfly.
This is a small tin box, of the pepper-box or flour-dredger shape, standing three to four inches high. By pulling the bottom downward, therefore, you draw down with it the inner tube, telescope fashion. By so doing you bring into view a slit or opening at one side of the inner tube, level with the bottom, and of such a size as to let a half-dollar pass through it easily.
The boy smiled; rather, his very short upper lip apparently vanished completely over his white teeth, and his very black eyes, which showed a great deal of the white around them, danced in their orbits. "But YOU couldn't find it," he said, slyly. "No more could you find the half-dollar I dropped just now, unless I helped you." Mr.
She appeared to regret her own half-dollar, and to be vaguely impatient of the behaviour of her sex. Ransom became so sensible of this that he felt it was indelicate to allude further to the cause of woman, and, for a change, endeavoured to elicit from his companion some information about the gentlemen present.
Some color, however, was lent to the fear that they had secured an amount of money, from the fact that a silver half-dollar had been found on the window sill of a tool-house. The Newcomb family was at its summer home on the Maine coast. "You see," Hutchins said to Tish, "that man didn't belong there at all. He was just impertinent and laughing in his sleeve."
At the counter in the outside room, Blix, to the stupefaction of Richard, the waiter, paid the bill. But as she was moving toward the door, Condy called her back. "Remember the waiter," he said severely, while Richard grinned and bobbed. "Fifty cents is the very least you could tip him." Richard actually protested, but Condy was firm, and insisted upon a half-dollar tip.
There is nothing particularly beautiful about a silver half-dollar, but in the almond-shaped eyes of the Chinaman scenes of paradisiacal loveliness are nothing compared to the dull surface of a twenty-year-old fifty-cent piece; and the jingle of the silver coins contains more melody for Chin Chin's unromantic ear than a whole musical festival.
"You are a proud little girl, my dear." "I am poor and proud; but I will sell you some candy." "Well, give me half a dollar's worth." "I haven't got so much. I have only fourteen cents' worth left." "Give me that, then." Katy wrapped up the remainder of her stock in a piece of paper, and handed it to the gentleman, who in payment threw the half-dollar on the tray. "I can't change it."
Gill said that you would set the case out on the landing if you had to leave the office before we got back. I'll put the receipt under the door. "'I understand, I answered, carelessly. 'Get yourself some cigars, and I slipped a half-dollar in the man's hand. He thanked me and withdrew. I sat down and waited. "The lid of the case was removable from the inside.
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