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Updated: June 11, 2025
But the stream rushed on in the fifth week of the war alone 250,000 men enlisted; 30,000 recruits the yearly number enlisted before the war joined in one day. Within six or seven weeks the half-million available at the beginning of the war had been more than doubled. Then came a pause.
She has determined to turn over to you as quickly as possible a half-million dollars of her remaining fortune." Ruth sprang to her feet, her face scarlet, her breast heaving, her lithe figure erect and trembling. "And you dare bring this message to me? This offer to sell my husband and my love!" "Come, come, Ruth, a woman has no need to sacrifice a great fortune in New York for a husband.
"I should say that description would fit a hundred thousand men in London," he remarked. "Exactly so it would," answered Spargo. "But we know that it was one of the hundred thousand, or half-million, if you like. The thing is to find that one the one." "And you think you can do it?" "I think I'm going to have a big try at it." Breton shrugged his shoulders again.
"But old man Graeme was honest, in intention at least. He meant no harm; and in proof of that he offers to shoulder your loss himself, if by so doing he can induce you to drop further proceedings. That proves he's in earnest, Dan, for although Graeme is comfortably well to do, it's a known fact that the loss of a cool half-million, while it's a drop in the bucket to you, would cripple him."
The business was simple, easy, and when once started yielded an income to Peabody of from three hundred thousand to a half-million dollars a year. And no one was more surprised than George Peabody himself, who had once worked for a certain Sylvester Proctor of Danvers for four years, and at the end of that time had been paid five dollars and given a suit of clothes!
You will be always accessible?" "I shall not leave my post, Prince!" Monsieur Grisson answered. "You will find me here at any time!" On the following morning the inhabitants of London, Paris, Berlin, and St. Petersburg for a sum varying from a halfpenny to a penny were treated to sensationalism as thrilling as any six-shilling shocker hot from the press and assured of its half-million circulation.
Here had been destroyed, in a few hours, more property than a half-million industrious men would accumulate in their lives. Almost as gratifying as the sight of the old flag flying in triumph, was the exhibition of our naval power in the river before us.
I agreed to dispose of the receipt from the Mont de Piété to M. Mauruss Mosenstein for the sum of two hundred francs, and for another hundred I would indicate to him the banking house where his precious son-in-law had deposited the half-million francs obtained for the emeralds.
And yet when these half-million teachers who mean so much to this country gather at their institutes, when they attend the summer schools, when they take up their professional journals, what do they hear and read? Criticisms of their work. Denunciations of their methods. Serious doubts of their intelligence.
The same demonstration was repeated, gaining continually in intensity of feeling and solemn splendor of display, in every city through which the procession passed. The reception in New York was worthy alike of the great city and of the memory of the man they honored. The body lay in state in the City Hall, and a half-million people passed in deep silence before it.
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