耳边名著 | 中英字幕

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"I
paid out $300 more of my own," said Kelly. "I had to go a little
above the estimate. I got the express wagons and cabs mostly for $5; but the
trucks and two-horse teams mostly raised me to $10. The motormen wanted $10,
and some of the loaded teams $20. The cops struck me hardest--$50 I paid two,
and the rest $20 and $25. But didn't it work beautiful, Mr. Rockwall? I'm glad
William A. Brady wasn't onto that little outdoor vehicle mob scene. I wouldn't
want William to break his heart with jealousy. And never a rehearsal, either!
The boys was on time to the fraction of a second. It was two hours before a
snake could get below Greeley's statue."
"Thirteen
hundred--there you are, Kelly," said Anthony, tearing off a check.
"Your thousand, and the $300 you were out. You don't despise money, do
you, Kelly?"
"Me?"
said Kelly. "I can lick the man that invented poverty."
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