Yes, I flatter myself it IS style to have a handkerchief that cost a hundred
dollars. Why, Clara Caverly, the highest priced thing of this sort that was ever before sold in New York only came to seventy-nine
dollars.
"We can do it nicely for three hundred
dollars," she answered.
Marija had about fifty
dollars pinned up somewhere in her stockings, and Grandfather Anthony had part of the money he had gotten for his farm.
Five
dollars for "The Ring of Bells" - five
dollars for five thousand words!
That is to say, when I borrowed one hundred
dollars, he handed me ninety-five.
At the rate of sixteen
dollars to the ounce, the pan had contained seven hundred and odd
dollars.
Full black; stolen from Africa; sold in New Orleans; been free fifteen years; paid for himself six hundred
dollars; a farmer; owns several farms in Indiana; Presbyterian; probably worth fifteen or twenty thousand
dollars, all earned by himself.
Balch was not required to pay a cent in advance, except his railway fare, and before he was many years older he had sold his lease for a handsome fortune of a quarter of a million
dollars, honestly earned by his initiative and enterprise.
They fell into a conversation, and the Northern lady became so much interested in the effort being made at Tuskegee that before they parted Miss Davidson was handed a check for fifty
dollars. For some time before our marriage, and also after it, Miss Davidson kept up the work of securing money in the North and in the South by interesting people by personal visits and through correspondence.
A
dollar or two should be added to the price usually paid for Janie's shoes, which would insure their lasting an appreciable time longer than they usually did.
One broker left him a check for twenty thousand
dollars, another for nearly forty thousand.
And they'd answer quick, snap, like that, that if two
dollars ain't any better than one
dollar, then two thousand
dollars ain't any better than one
dollar.
