24/58 Will you let me in? Give me half a dol--Say, give me a DIME, an' I can get a cup of coffee." "No." The dentist paused and looked at her with curious intentness, bewildered, nonplussed. I--I--wouldn't let a DOG go hungry." "Not even if he'd bitten you, perhaps." The dentist stared again. McTeague looked up at her in silence, a mean and vicious twinkle coming into his small eyes. He uttered a low exclamation, and then checked himself. |