Come, Phil, we'll go." "Stay; you may have it for three dollars, though I shall lose by it." "So should I, if I paid you that price.

I can wait till some other time." But Eliakim did not intend to let this chance slip.

He had found the fiddle rather unsalable, and feared if he lost his chance of disposing of it, it might remain on his hands for a year more.

He was willing, therefore, to take less than the profit he usually calculated upon in the sale of articles which remained unredeemed.
"You may have it for two dollars and a half," he said.
As far as Paul could judge, though he did not know much about the price of violins, this was a reasonable price.

But he knew that Eliakim must have got it for considerably less, or he would not so soon have come down to this sum.