Very good; we allow but half as much; we pay her only a tenth of a
cent a day; and --"
Here is a young fellow that offers to marry his daughter for $30,000--half price, as one may say-- and he talks about covering every
cent he lays down with one of my own.
Five dollars for five thousand words, ten words for a
cent, the market price for art.
The little boy had the
cent ready, but, like a true-born Yankee, would have preferred the better bargain to the worse.
Of course we can't afford to take these structures down under a bonus of five hundred per
cent upon the prime cost of our lot and plaster.
Their fate was pressing; they had not a
cent, and the children would perish--some money must be had.
railroad down in the valley for twenty-two
cents a gallon.
I am very well satisfied to think the whole population believed in those poor, cheap miracles--a people who want two
cents every time they bow to you, and who abuse a woman, are capable of it, I think.
Three dollars and twelve and a half
cents," she supplied quickly.
And I was appalled at the price French Frank had paid--eighty
cents.
If you want to have your name on the quilt you pay five
cents, and if you want to have it right in the round spot in the middle of the square you must pay ten
cents.
Twenty-one dollars they took from her for it, and she hurried home with the 87
cents.
