[The $30000 Bequest and Other Stories by Mark Twain]@TWC D-Link bookThe $30000 Bequest and Other Stories CHAPTER II 9/11
What about the other twenty? What do you mean to do with that ?" "There is no hurry; I am going to look around before I do anything with it." "All right, if your mind's made up," signed Sally.
He was deep in thought awhile, then he said: "There'll be twenty thousand profit coming from the ten a year from now. We can spend that, can we, Aleck ?" Aleck shook her head. "No, dear," she said, "it won't sell high till we've had the first semi-annual dividend.
You can spend part of that." "Shucks, only THAT--and a whole year to wait! Confound it, I--" "Oh, do be patient! It might even be declared in three months--it's quite within the possibilities." "Oh, jolly! oh, thanks!" and Sally jumped up and kissed his wife in gratitude.
"It'll be three thousand--three whole thousand! how much of it can we spend, Aleck? Make it liberal!--do, dear, that's a good fellow." Aleck was pleased; so pleased that she yielded to the pressure and conceded a sum which her judgment told her was a foolish extravagance--a thousand dollars.
Sally kissed her half a dozen times and even in that way could not express all his joy and thankfulness.
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