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H. P. Ellersly's wife had a crazy brother, and they undertook to keep him at the house. First morning he was there he walked straight though a ten-dollar plate-glass window out into the yard. He says, 'Oh, look at the pretty dandelion! That's what you're doin'! You want to spend your life sayin', 'Oh, look at the pretty dandelion! and you don't care a tinker's dam' what you bust!
It will be observed that this gives her all the more opportunity for conversation a doubtful blessing. On the other hand, there is an equivalent economic waste. I have no doubt each guest would prefer to have set before her a chop, a baked potato and a ten-dollar goldpiece. It would amount to the same thing, so far as the host is concerned.
Perhaps he was ashamed to know. In all these four years he did not come home. He would have liked to but the trip was prohibitively expensive. Late in the fall of 1861, he received a letter from his mother containing a ten-dollar bill. It was a short letter. "Your father can't live more than a week. Come at once."
"I dunno 'bout dat, Dennie, but 'f I cud talk like er you I'd bin an Eyetalian Prince by dis time, wid a title wot ud reach across dis room an' jewels ter match," and The Croak looked at his friend in undisguised admiration. But Dennie's humor was pensive. "Croaker," said he, drawing the ten-dollar bill out of his pocket and nodding suggestively to the bartender, "look out there in the street.
But in my second year I discovered a small gold-mine, on which I drew with a moderation which shows even thus early the strength of my character. I used to go home once a month for a Sunday visit, and on these occasions I was often able to remove from my aunt's big Bible a five- or ten-dollar note, which otherwise would have been long useless.
I talked awhile with Lieutenant Abbott, who lay prostrate, feeble, but soldier-like and uncomplaining, carefully waited upon by a most excellent lady, a captain's wife, New England born, loyal as the Liberty on a golden ten-dollar piece, and of lofty bearing enough to have sat for that goddess's portrait.
After agreeing with his wife that he had better leave Barker alone, Sewell did not feel easy in doing so. He had that ten-dollar note which Miss Vane had given him, and though he did not believe, since Evans had reported Barker's refusal of his fee, that the boy would take it, he was still constrained to do something with it.
I went to the chapel down the hill with Miss Dering and Aunt Josephine. Aunt Josephine put a ten-dollar bill in the box. Thinks she's squaring herself with the Lord, I suppose. Miss Dering was not at all talkative and gave every sign of being uncomfortable because he had the audacity to go walking with another girl. In the afternoon she complained of being ill and went to her room.
It was all of fifteen minutes, but seemed twice as long, before Jerry reached the clerk behind the counter and asked for change. "Sorry, but I'm short of change," said the young man behind the counter. A wave of discouragement swept over Jerry. Perhaps storekeepers wouldn't give change to anybody who wasn't buying anything. But he had to get his ten-dollar bill changed.
"Oh, yes, I've got a broad board on a slant, and plenty of room." Bart lifted over the lunch basket. "There you are!" he said briskly "now enjoy yourself, and don't take a single care about anything. Have you made out that list of things you want?" "Yes, here it is," and Baker handed over a piece of paper inclosing the ten-dollar bill. "I'll attend to this promptly," said Bart.
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