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1  Everybody said I was lucky to get a girl to come away out here, and I agreed to give her a dollar extry to make sure.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In VII
2  The latter did not know how to begin, but at length he managed to bring out his request for an advance of fifty dollars.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In IV
3  If he could get Mrs. Hale's ear he felt certain of success, and with fifty dollars in his pocket nothing could keep him from Mattie.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In VIII
4  His wife died of the disclosure, and Mattie, at twenty, was left alone to make her way on the fifty dollars obtained from the sale of her piano.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In III
5  Zeena always came back laden with expensive remedies, and her last visit to Springfield had been commemorated by her paying twenty dollars for an electric battery of which she had never been able to learn the use.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In III
6  Borrowing was out of the question: six months before he had given his only security to raise funds for necessary repairs to the mill, and he knew that without security no one at Starkfield would lend him ten dollars.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In VIII
7  Instead of her usual calico wrapper and knitted shawl she wore her best dress of brown merino, and above her thin strands of hair, which still preserved the tight undulations of the crimping-pins, rose a hard perpendicular bonnet, as to which Ethan's clearest notion was that he had to pay five dollars for it at the Bettsbridge Emporium.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In III