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"I don't know jus' exac'ly. I can count up to ten, and there's two ten piles, and and five cents more." "Oh, two tens and five. Yes, I see," running his fingers over the little heap, "that makes twenty-five. You've got twenty-five cents. Here are the twenty-five-cent valentines;" and he uncovered another box, and left her to make her choice. "Twenty-five cents!" echoed Polly.
The bank coined gold in denominations of fifty dollars, twenty dollars, ten dollars and five dollars; silver in dollar, fifty and twenty-five-cent pieces; nickel in ten-cent and five-cent pieces, and aluminum in one-cent pieces. All money coined with ten per cent. alloy and at bullion value.
Half an hour afterwards his disappointment was turned to joy a friend who had an orchestra chair couldn't use his ticket that day, and so handed it over to him." Billy turned interestedly. "What are those twenty-five-cent tickets to the Symphony?" "Then you don't know?" "Not exactly. I've heard of them, in a vague fashion."
And how'd he git on yesterday, makin' vi'lets for y'?" "Ach!" this, an exclamation of impatience, was aimed at herself. "I wass forgettink!" Under her apron hung a long, slender, black bag. Out of it she took a twenty-five-cent piece and offered the coin to Barber. "For yesttady," she added. "Thank y'." He took the quarter. "Glad the kid done his work." "Oh, sure he do!" protested Mrs. Kukor.
So I looked at you and smiled, and you giggled." "Giggled!" cried Phyllis, indignantly. Pembroke was laughing. "Yes, actually giggled," I went on. "I laid down a twenty-five-cent piece, and you poured but some water which had had nothing more than a mild flirtation with a lemon, and I gulped it down. I held out my hand, and you said that there wasn't any change. I smiled a false smile.
With avid enthusiasm, Stuart plunged into a wild and woolly yarn which would have been looked upon with suspicion by the editor of a blood-and-thunder twenty-five-cent series. The reporter cut him off abruptly. "Kid," he said dryly, "the newspaper game is on the level.
They played tennis and ping-pong in the day, and in the evening, in accordance with the stiff routine of the place, they sat down with the Earl and Countess to twenty-five-cent poker, and later still they sat together on the verandah and watched the moon sweeping in great circles around the horizon.
Billy spoke with a smiling indifference that was meant to convey the impression that standing in line for a twenty-five-cent seat was a daily habit of hers. "There's a restaurant only a little way right down there," she finished. And before the dazed Alice Greggory knew quite what was happening she found herself outside the line, and the other in her place.
Billy Neilson is a girl, you know, they say, in spite of " She stopped abruptly. Her eyes grew wide and questioning. "Miss Neilson it can't be you don't mean is your name it is you!" she finished joyously, as the telltale color dyed Billy's face. The next moment her own cheeks burned scarlet. "And to think of my letting you stand in line for a twenty-five-cent admission!" she scorned.
Our social arrangement has this great beauty, that its strata shift up and down as they change specific gravity, without being clogged by layers of prescription. But I still insist on my democratic liberty of choice, and I go for the man with the gallery of family portraits against the one with the twenty-five-cent daguerreotype, unless I find out that the last is the better of the two.
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