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McTeague

CHAPTER 10
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Do you think we're millionaires?
Oh, to think of losing thirty-five dollars like that." Tears were in her eyes, tears of grief as well as of anger.

Never had McTeague seen his little woman so aroused.

Suddenly she rose to her feet and slammed the chopping-bowl down upon the table.

"Well, I won't pay a nickel of it," she exclaimed.
"Huh?
What, what ?" stammered the dentist, taken all aback by her outburst.
"I say that you will find that money, that thirty-five dollars, yourself." "Why--why----" "It's your stupidity got us into this fix, and you'll be the one that'll suffer by it." "I can't do it, I WON'T do it.

We'll--we'll share and share alike.


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