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The city of Manila has sufficient public funds for certain years, through the fines imposed by its judges; in its own particular possessions, inside and outside the city; in the reweighing of the merchandise and the rents of all the shops and sites of the Sangleys in the parian; and in the monopoly on playing cards.
The pleasures of life had culminated in the continual weighing and reweighing of his dust; but a shadow had been thrown upon this pleasant avocation, which he had hitherto failed to brush aside. His gold-scales were quite small; in fact, their maximum was a pound and a half, eighteen ounces, while his hoard mounted up to something like three and a third times that.
Mrs. McKee was reweighing the meat order. "Kind of a nice fellow," Tillie said, cup to lips "the new man." "Week or meal?" "Week. He'd be handsome if he wasn't so grouchy-looking. Lit up some when Mr. Wagner sent him one of his love letters. Mrs. McKee drew a long breath and entered the lam stew in a book. And where they'll put him, in that little house he looked thin, what I saw of him.
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