She told me she did so; that she opened the wallet under his eye and took out five bonds each for ten thousand dollars.

She remembers them well; there was no mistake in the figures.
She held fifty thousand dollars in her hands for the space of half a minute; then he bade her put them back, with an injunction to watch over him well and not to let that woman nurse come near him till she had taken away the wallet immediately after his death.

He could not bear to part with it while alive.
"She promised.

She was in a delirium of joy.

In one minute her life of poverty had changed to one of ecstatic hope.