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The groom sheepishly dug two one-dollar bills out of his trousers pocket and the sum striking Archie as a pitifully inadequate fee he slipped a ten-dollar bill into the minister's hand as the bride and groom were hurrying from the house. "Well, Sally," Archie remarked, as he joined them, "for better or worse you are married. I certainly wish you all good luck."
Then, with a quick motion, as he drew them forth, he covered a ten-dollar bill with a one-dollar note and thrust them forward. "Yes, I 'll take the ticket." She handed it to him, thanked him, and reached for the money. As it passed into her hand, a corner of the ten-dollar bill revealed itself, and she hastily thrust it toward him as though to return money paid by mistake.
"No, thank you, Carl," said the little man. "I am more active than you think. Here we are!" He descended nimbly to the ground, and, drawing a one-dollar bill from his pocket, handed it to the driver. "I don't like to take it, Mr. Jennings," said Mr. Leach. "Why not? The laborer is worthy of his hire. Now, Carl, let us go into the house." Mr. Mr. Jennings did not need to open the door.
He took the one-dollar note from the hand of the unfaithful pastor, and after scanning it a moment, inquired, "What is the matter with it?" "Is it good?" queried the anxious owner. "I wish I had my safe full of the same sort," answered the banker. "There is nothing bad about the bill. What makes you think so? Perhaps you have shown me the wrong one. Let me see the others."
He straightened up and took another look around. Not a soul was in sight. With dexterous fingers he unfastened the watch and chain and transferred them to his pocket. The stickpin followed. Then he slipped his hand into a vest-pocket and brought out a five-dollar bill and three one-dollar bills. "Eight dollars!" he muttered. "Not so bad but what it might be worse.
In the pocket was a one-dollar Tallahassee Bank note, and the rascal had the impudence to ask me to give him silver coin for that dollar. He had evidently killed the wearer, and was disappointed because the pocket contained a paper dollar instead of one in silver.
"There's one thing I forgot," I said as I proudly took out of my wallet the six one-dollar bills which I had earned by working Saturdays and handed three of them to my aunt and three to my uncle, saying: "That is my Christmas present to you. I earned it myself." I remember so well their astonishment and the trembling of their hands and the look of their faces. "It's grand ayes!"
I would have paid gladly for the drinks, hoping, thereby, to escape another; but he was one of those despicable, roaring, advertising bibbers who must have brass bands and fireworks attend upon every cent that they waste in their follies. With an air of producing millions he drew two one-dollar bills from a pocket and dashed one of them upon the bar.
Greenleaf made an effort to have Herbert pay for both, but this time Herbert also had a bill to change. It was rather a suspicious circumstance, he thought, that Greenleaf, who had no bill smaller than a ten, paid for his meal out of a one-dollar bill. After supper Greenleaf bought a couple of cigars, and offered Herbert one. "No, thank you," said our hero. "Don't you smoke?" "No."
As Dennis looked up and down this busy thoroughfare, with its thousands speeding oppositely in preoccupied interest, as if all that was vital and worthy was to be found at either extreme of its splendid distances, he paused for a moment to account his meager finances. He found that he possessed just four one-dollar bills and about eighty cents in small change.
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