All these, with trimmings, etc., to match, cost the round sum of ten dollars.
"It looks very neat," said Mrs.Jones, after her curtains were up.
"It does, indeed," said I.
"Still," returned Mrs.Jones, "I would much rather have had a handsome mahogany French bedstead." "So would I," was my answer.

"But you know they cost some thirty dollars, and we paid but sixteen for this." "Sixteen!" said my wife, turning quickly toward me.

"It cost more than that." "Oh, no.

I have the bill in my desk," was my confident answer.
"Sixteen was originally paid, I know," said Mrs.Jones.

"But then, remember, what it has cost since.