To be sure I did spend a few minutes preparing your room.

I will charge you seven twenty-fourths of a cent for that, thus making your bill twenty-three cents--even money." "I cannot gainsay reasoning like yours, madam," he said, and he took a quarter from a very fat old pocket-book, and handed it to her.

She gravely gave him two cents change, and then taking the bill, receipted it, and handed it back to him.
We were sorry to part with our guest, for he was evidently a good fellow.

I walked with him a little way up the road, and got him to let me copy his bill in my memorandum-book.

The original, he said, he would always keep.
A day or two after the artist's departure, we were standing on the front piazza.