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While he unlaced his shoes and ran the water out, they had further talk. Next, he fished out a ten-dollar gold-piece and offered it to his rescuer. Old Tarwater shook his head and shivered, for the ice-water had wet him to his knees. "But I reckon I wouldn't object to settin' down to a friendly meal with you."
He opened the door of his cab and thrust a ten-dollar note into the instinctively ready hand of his driver. "Keep the change and give me a swing once around Central Park, slowing down on those hilly turns on the west side." "I gotcha." The car entered the park at the Plaza and sped up the shining, almost empty drive.
"'He's gone down the road an' hasn't come back yet, says the officer. "I passed him a ten-dollar bill. "'Keep within sight of us, I says. 'We may need you any minute. "He nodded and smiled, an' away we went. "'I'm wonderin' how we're agoin' to get the money, I says, havin' told Dan about it. "'I'll take it away from him, says Dan. "'That wouldn't do, says I. "'Why not?
Here, my good fellow," he added, and handed the policeman a ten-dollar bill. "You're not a Mexican. You're an American," the book-maker Joe cried accusingly, "although you bragged like a Mexican." "Quite right. I never claimed to be a Mexican, however. I heard about this Thanksgiving Handicap, and it seemed such a splendid opportunity to pick up a few thousand dollars that I entered my horse.
At length the grief-stricken company repaired to the house for their belated breakfast, while the tramp, touched to the quick by the pathos of the scene he had just witnessed, made his way across the fields and through the woods, leaving only a crumpled ten-dollar bill among the grain sacks to tell of his visit. "Gail!" "Yes, dear."
But then, the strange man had given a poor laborer a hundred dollars for stopping his horse, when the animal leisurely walked towards home from the store where the owner had left him. Again, he had given a negro sailor a fifty-dollar bill for sculling him across the river. He had rewarded a small boy with a ten-dollar bill for bringing him a despatch from the telegraph office.
A quick dozen of questions rushed to Lilly's lips, but instead she laid down a new ten-dollar bill, crammed the slip into her palm through the hole in her glove, and went out, the snapping torrent of typewriting already resumed.
I know what such work is worth in New York," and now he held forth three crisp ten-dollar bills, "but this had to be done so rapidly. Will thirty dollars be anywhere near right?" he asked.
There was a crisp ten-dollar bill, evidently the last of those given by the bank at the beginning of the month. There were two one-dollar bills. There was a fifty-cent piece, two quarters and a dime. A gold German twenty-mark piece, about eight inches of narrow crimson ribbon, and a glove button, completed the contents.
It made my heart ache to do it for I'd already been pretty extravagant, one way and another but I put a ten-dollar bill in my wallet, resolved to spend every cent of it rather than appear mean. I don't know whether I appeared mean or not; I do know that I spent every penny of that ten dollars, and considerable more besides.
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