[Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser]@TWC D-Link bookSister Carrie CHAPTER XXXIX 10/32
It did not take so very much to feed them under Hurstwood's close-measured buying, and there would possibly be enough for rent, but it left nothing else.
Carrie bought the shoes and some other things, which complicated the rent problem very seriously. Suddenly, a week from the fatal day, Carrie realized that they were going to run short. "I don't believe," she exclaimed, looking into her purse at breakfast, "that I'll have enough to pay the rent." "How much have you ?" inquired Hurstwood. "Well, I've got twenty-two dollars, but there's everything to be paid for this week yet, and if I use all I get Saturday to pay this, there won't be any left for next week.
Do you think your hotel man will open his hotel this month ?" "I think so," returned Hurstwood.
"He said he would." After a while, Hurstwood said: "Don't worry about it.
Maybe the grocer will wait.
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