[McTeague by Frank Norris]@TWC D-Link bookMcTeague CHAPTER 7 31/37
How much do you suppose that girl has won ?" "I don't know.
How much? How much ?" "Five thousand dollars." It was as though a knife had been run through the Jew; a spasm of an almost physical pain twisted his face--his entire body.
He raised his clenched fists into the air, his eyes shut, his teeth gnawing his lip. "Five thousand dollars," he whispered; "five thousand dollars.
For what? For nothing, for simply buying a ticket; and I have worked so hard for it, so hard, so hard.
Five thousand dollars, five thousand dollars.
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