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He realized the need of economy, and felt that he was practicing it. He had changed his ten-dollar bill the first day, for a five and several ones. These last were now spent, and the five-dollar bill alone remained to him. He had earned nothing, though everywhere he had been on the lookout for a job.
Prob'ly to-morrow. By the looks of the sky it's goin' to be a nice, warm day." She backed to the door, her eyes goggling. "I ain't got any hard feelin's at all, marm. I pity you, and here's a ten-dollar bill that I'll advance from the town. I reckon I'll wait till after you're a widder before I take you to the poorhouse." She clutched the bill and ran out.
"Oh, dear me!" exclaimed Alexia discontentedly, "now we're mewed up here when we might be in that dear old sweet dump, Polly Pepper; and all because we're girls." "Well, we can't help it," said Polly, with a sigh, who wished very much sometimes that she might be a boy, "so we'd much better keep at work hunting for that ten-dollar bill, Alexia."
The young woman riffled through the packet and drove a hand into the jingling bag. Briskly she counted down before her the following items in currency and specie: Four one-hundred-dollar bills, six fifty-dollar bills, twelve twenty-dollar bills, five ten-dollar bills, one five-dollar bill, four one-dollar bills, one fifty-cent piece, one quarter, two dimes and one nickel.
"I didn't flirt with her any." "At any rate, I should judge that she became interested in you or she wouldn't write." "I hope she did, for she is very wealthy," returned Ben. The letter was placed in his hands, and he quickly tore it open. Something dropped from it. "What is that?" asked the postmaster. Ben stooped and picked it up, and, to his surprise, discovered that it was a ten-dollar bill.
But the dear little Bishop gave a jump that almost knocked the roof off the carriage, pulled his arm from behind me and dropped the ten-dollar bill he held as though it burned him. It fell in my lap. I jammed it into my coat pocket. Where is it now? Just you wait, Tom Dorgan, and you'll find out. I followed the Bishop's eyes. His face was scarlet now.
As they rolled slowly down West Seventy-first Street Bobbie saw a house which showed a light in the third floor. Presumably the storm door would not be locked, as it would have been in case the tenants were away. He knocked on the window. The taxi came to a stop. The chauffeur opened the door and Burke sprang out. "Here's a ten-dollar bill, my boy," said Burke.
At any rate, he had been prompt in accepting Harney's offer to hire the buggy at a dollar and a half a day; and his satisfaction with the bargain had manifested itself, unexpectedly enough, at the end of the first week, by his tossing a ten-dollar bill into Charity's lap as she sat one day retrimming her old hat.
"There 'll be one boat over," that worthy was explaining. "One boat you take that the last one! And you 'd better give the guinney a ten-dollar bill for his trouble!" "All right! I 'm ready!" was Blake's low-toned reply as he started to move forward with the other man. "Not yet! Not yet!" was the other's irritable warning, as Blake felt himself pushed back. "You stay where you are!
Splurge forthwith began improving the minds of her girls to the extent of three full annual subscriptions for Josephine, Adelaide, and Madeline respectively; and that triplet of fair students, who, separately or conjointly, were at all times competent to the establishment of a precedent for the graceful charities of Hendrik good society, handsomely led off with a ten-dollar investment in "fountain" pens, "cream-laid assembly note," motto-wafers, Blessington envelopes "with crest and initial," ivory tablets, pencil-sharpeners, and ink-erasers.
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