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Updated: May 12, 2025
Lost my five thousand plunks and got three months in the pen, all because I put my dough in the bank. "Banks be damned, George. Not for mine, no siree." Jake puffed his pipe reflectively, after his long tirade. "That's all very well, but there are good banks nowadays and good Trust Companies, too, although I prefer regular chartered banks every time.
I've a notion to give up that farm, and stop trying to breed those damfool sheep. They cost a thousand apiece, and do you know what I got for those six I sent to Westbury? Just twelve hundred dollars from Fleetwood the bargaining shopkeeper! Twelve hundred! Think of that! And along comes Granby and sells a single ram for six thousand plunks!" Leila's head was lowered.
Say, I've got some news. Some land that my dad left me has sold for nearly a thousand plunks. By the way, this lunch is on me. Let me pay for it, Charley." Charley promised to let him pay, quite readily. And, expanding, said: "Great, Wrenn! Great! Lemme congratulate you. Don't know anybody I'd rather've had this happen to.
Spike looked somewhat embarrassed. He grinned apologetically, and shuffled his feet. "I've got dem, boss!" he said, with a smirk. "Got them? Got what?" "Dese." Spike plunged a hand in a pocket, and drew forth in a glittering mass Lady Julia Blunt's rope of diamonds. "One hundred t'ousand plunks," murmured Spike, gazing lovingly at them.
A sheaf of fifties and twenties, swelling the total to something like twelve thousand! Hooray! Am I dreaming? Pinch me, I'll stop snoring, 'deed I will. I'll turn over, dearie, and go to sleep again! Twelve thousand plunks. Well, well, well! Not so bad for a moment's effort before breakfast, eh? "And my nurse smiled wearily."
Sam'l Clark; and this hungry-looking squirt up here beside me is Dave Dyer, who keeps his drug store running by not filling your hubby's prescriptions right fact you might say he's the guy that put the 'shun' in 'prescription. So! Well, leave us take the bonny bride home. Say, doc, I'll sell you the Candersen place for three thousand plunks.
"If I stood by and admired him long enough, I would be content. I would become a 'nice little woman. The Village Virus. Already I'm not reading anything. I haven't touched the piano for a week. I'm letting the days drown in worship of 'a good deal, ten plunks more per acre. I won't! I won't succumb! "How? I've failed at everything: the Thanatopsis, parties, pioneers, city hall, Guy and Vida.
'Seems to me it's just cussedness that makes people go away from Broadway when they've got plunks enough to stay there and enjoy themselves. 'Do you like Broadway, Peggy? 'Do I like Broadway? Does a kid like candy? Why, don't you? 'It's all right for the time. It's not my ideal. 'Oh, and what particular sort of little old Paradise do you hanker after?
I then went up to the South End and on Decatur Street found a man who promptly responded to my inquiries: 'Gad! that's Henri Cazot fast enough, in all but the height and gait. Dick there, he'll tell you all about him. He owes him a little debt of honour of about a hundred plunks.
"Why, find out where de loidy keeps de jools." "Confound you, Spike! How often am I to tell you that I have done with all that sort of thing forever? I never want to see or touch another stone that doesn't belong to me. I don't want to hear about them. They don't interest me." "Sorry, Mr. Chames. But dey must cop de limit for fair, dose jools. Two hundred t'ousand plunks! What's dat dis side?"
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