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From the little pile of one-dollar bills under his hand the five which he had won and the one that he had first staked the doctor counted five slowly, and then counted it over again, to make sure. He won. The others were watching him as he pushed the twenty-five dollars out in the middle of the table with a defiant snort.
The lieutenants and satellites took theirs and growled "Here's to you." Ikey took his nectar in delirium. All drank. Ikey threw his week's wages in a crumpled roll upon the bar. "C'rect," said the bartender, smoothing the twelve one-dollar notes. The crowd surged around Billy McMahan again. Some one was telling how Brannigan fixed 'em over in the Eleventh.
When her little roll had flattened finally down to five one-dollar bills she took to daily and conscientiously buying morning papers and scanning want-advertisements as she stood at the news-stand, answering first those that were within walking-distance. She would make a five-block detour of the Criterion rather than pass the nearer to it.
"Haven't you got any money you can lend me?" inquired the squint-eyed one, scowling in Tom's direction. "No, not a bit. There, some one raised Tom's bid." At that moment a man in the crowd offered a hundred and eighty-one dollars. "Small amounts thankfully received," said Mr. Wood with a laugh. Then the bidding became lively, a number making one-dollar advances.
From this she took a pile of new one-dollar bills ten in all and laid them one by one on Montgomery's outstretched palms. It was the largest amount of money Kate had ever owned, it was almost the largest the boy had ever seen. A feeling like awe stole upon him and he whispered, without a stutter, "S'pose he should lose it!" "That's a good boy.
Now Mrs. Pedagog was consumed with curiosity to know for how large a sum the check called which desire was gratified a few days later, when the inspired boarder paid his week's bill with three one-dollar bills and a check, signed by a well-known publisher, for two dollars. By the boarders themselves the poet was regarded with much interest.
"You confounded old rascal," I said, reaching down to my pocket, "you ought to be turned over to the police." For the first time I saw him smile. He knew; he knew. I gave him two one-dollar bills. As I handed them over I noticed that one of them had seen parlous times. Its upper right-hand corner was missing, and it had been torn through the middle, but joined again.
Gilbert took from his pocket ten cents and handed him. "That's for the shine," he said; "and here's something for the other matter." So saying, he placed in the hand of the boot-black a bank-note. Micky glanced at it, and his countenance changed ominously, when he perceived the denomination. It was a one-dollar bill! "It's one dollar," he said. "Isn't that enough?"
Perhaps the most sound and thoughtful opinion of Gottschalk expressed during the first enthusiasm created by his playing was that of a well-known musical journal published in Boston: "Well, at the concert, which, by the way, did not half fill the Boston Music Hall, owing partly, we believe, to the one-dollar price, and partly, we hope, to distrust of an artist who plays wholly his own compositions, our expectation was confirmed.
They walked to the end of the hall and knocked on the door of one of the two rear apartments. "Come!" said a female voice. Morris opened the door and they entered. "We've come for the rent," he said. "Him and me is the new landlords." The tenant excused herself while she retired to one of the inner rooms and explored her person for the money. Then she handed Morris ten greasy one-dollar bills.
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