One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies.
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Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one's cheeks burned with the silent imputation of parsimony that such close dealing implied.
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Three times Della counted it. One dollar and eighty-seven cents. And the next day would be Christmas.
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