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A hundred times he took a ten-cent dessert instead of an exciting fifteen-cent strawberry shortcake, to save money for those parties. Yet always to him their real life was in simple jaunts out of doors, arranged without considering other people. Her father seemed glad of that. How is the automobile business going?"
It got him to think Dubs could frivol around and waste the golden Moments when they might be hopping on to a Ten-Cent Piece. His usual Gait was that of a man going for the Doctor, and he talked Numbers to himself as he sped along and mumbled over the important Letters he was about to dictate. Those who were pushed out of his way would overhear a scrap or two of the Raving and think he was Balmy.
"What's in the packages, Johnny?" asked a bootblack, with his box strapped to his back. "Candy," answered Paul. "Buy one. Only five cents." "There ain't much candy," answered the bootblack, with a disparaging glance. "What if there isn't? There's a prize." "How big a prize?" "There's a ten-cent stamp in some of 'em. All have got something in 'em."
Four feet of ten-cent dirt was what she averaged. Big? Well, I wonder! It near drove Morrow crazy. "'Billy, old boy, this means I'll see her next summer! "Whenever he mentioned her name, he spoke like a man in church or out of breath. Somehow it made me feel like takin' off my cap forty below at that, and my ears freeze terrible willing since that winter on the Porcupine.
Of course others was also crowding these numbers, though not so many as you'd think, because every one said the run must be at an end, and they'd be a fool to play 'em any farther; and them that did play 'em was mostly making ten-cent bets to be on the safe side. Only Sandy and Cora kept right on showing up one Egbert Floud as a party that had much to learn about pulling off a good bazaar.
It was neatly tied with thin scarlet twine, and innocent of markings except for the superscription in a precise, copperplate hand, and the smudge of the postmark across the ten-cent stamp in the upper right-hand corner. The imprint of the cancellation, faintly decipherable, showed that the package had been mailed at the Madison Square substation at half-past seven o'clock of the previous evening.
And hanged if I can see that we're growing any wiser, or better, or richer hey? Thirty cents! Ye gods, Croaker, that man says thirty cents! Thirty cents, and my entire capital is a lonely ten-cent piece that I kept for luck. Thirty cents, and my last collateral security hocked and the ticket lost! Croaker, I'm in despair."
Only once or twice have I submitted, out of curiosity, to the whole interminable process. I now cut it short, not without difficulty, before the "witchhazel" stage is reached, and am regarded with blank astonishment and disapproval by the tonsorial professor, who feels his art and mystery insulted in his person, and is scarcely mollified by a ten-cent tip.
"She has to have a double portion," he explained, "because she's a girl and little and has to make up lost time." "Yep, dad," said Pat, nodding agreement to each of these reasons and adding another, "and she has such gangs of people to send things to. You'll have to go to the ten-cent shop, Nancy Anne, or borrow from my bank.
After his old full-bosomed grandeur this shirt, with a ten-cent collar buttoned on to it and overriding the neckband, and gaping away in the front so that the major's throat showed, seemed to typify more than anything else the days upon which he had fallen. About this time I thought his voice took on a changed tone permanently. It was still hollow, but it no longer rang.
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