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He laughed and stuffed the ten-dollar bill into the cup, and said: "For old acquaintance' sake." The beggar studied the young man's face. Then he said: "Mr. Allen, I once had the honor to warn you against three things." "I remember." "Your face is innocent of wine and women. How about the gambling?" "My friend," said Wilmot, "you read me like a book. The gambling is all to the bad.
In the West I have been the recipient of Home Missionary barrels packed in some rich church in New York or New England annual barrels in which there is usually a ten-dollar suit for the missionary, bought by some dear old lady to whom all men were alike in size. This whole process is hoary, antiquated, stupid and degrading.
No, the Robson tree was always an opulent work of art, freighted with bursting cornucopias and heavy glass balls and yards of quivering tinsel. The money for all this dazzling beauty usually came a fortnight or so before the eventful day in the shape of a ten-dollar bill tucked away in the folds of Gertrude Sinclair's annual letter to Mrs. Robson.
One of these days I may find means to show you how much I feel it. Just now I have only a hint. Last year at this time my most cherished possession was my new spring style, ten-dollar Amidon. A silk hat is as out of place in Arizona as a sunshade in Sitka, yet my striker has just unpacked it and asked, with a grin on his confounded mug, 'What'll I be doin' wid this, sor?" "I know!
"I'm afraid he found the hidden money," Will said, taking a scorched ten-dollar bill from a pocket. "I found this back there, where the pillar fell. I guess he found the cash all right!" "And that's a nice thing, too!" exclaimed Sandy. "You boys kept saying that Ventner was helping you find the coin. You were right about that, for he did find the coin.
"He gives me this here," Jake announced, "and I give him the change for a ten-dollar bill. So this here is a hundred-dollar bill, ain't it, and it don't belong to me, which I come downtown I should give it him back again. What isn't mine I don't want at all." This was perhaps the longest speech that Jake had ever made, and he paused to lick his dry lips for the peroration.
Meantime," he added, with a gesture of royal condescension, putting the money in his pocket, "I will keep your coins as instructors" we murmured our thanks "and now explain to me, please, your five-dollar gold piece and your ten-dollar eagle." We felt it proper, however, to shift the subject, and asked the Prince a few questions in regard to his views on American politics.
Good at figures, stoically steady, he rose by degrees to command a fair remuneration. A brother of Mrs. Webb, currently known as "Uncle Sandy Armstrong," lived in miserly fashion on the old homestead in New Jersey. Occasionally he sent his sister a ten-dollar bill. Mrs. Webb, believing him to be as straitened as herself, albeit without a family, never applied to him for assistance.
So the ten-dollar bill lay perfectly still where it fell, until it got all tired out, and a little puff of wind, sweeping through the arbor, blew it first to one side, and then to the other, until at last it fell down among a tangle of evergreen with which the posts of the arbor were wound.
Truth to tell he was in no condition to put his mind seriously on lessons, but he tried hard. Andy, coming in from football practice one afternoon, found Dunk standing in the middle of the apartment staring curiously at a yellow-backed ten-dollar bill he was holding in both of his hands. "What's the matter?" asked Andy. "A windfall?" "No, Gaffington just sent it in to me.
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