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Heiress I i: mrs blandish: This [letter] You take care to send to all the lying-in ladies? prompt: At their doors, Madam, before the first load of straw [...] (Reading his memorandum, as he goes out.) Ladies in the straw – Ministers, etc. – Old Maids, Cats, Sparrows, never had a better list. Heiress II ii: My Lady looks over me; my Lord walks over me; and sets me in a little tottering cane chair, at the cold corner of the table . Five Thousand an Hour Ch. v: Let’s look at these other blocks. The buildings on the one next to it are worth about a plugged nickel apiece. Five Thousand an Hour Ch. ii: I wasn’t a star, but I was featured and was making an awful hit. Five Thousand an Hour Ch. i: He’s not broke, Johnny. He’s merely been letting you hold the bag. Five Thousand an Hour Ch. xxi: You bled me for two years, and yet you have the ingrowing gall to come and tell me you’re broke. Five Thousand an Hour Ch. viii: Mr. Washer, proprietor of two of the largest hotels in New York, and half a dozen enormous winter and summer places, looked no more like a boniface than he did like a little girl on communion Sunday. Five Thousand an Hour Ch. xv: Your digestion is bad or else you made a recent winning in your favorite bucket-shop. Five Thousand an Hour Ch. xxi: Everybody likes you, you’re a swift money-maker, and you’ve got a girl – now don’t get chesty. Five Thousand an Hour Ch. xiv: Lofty tried to buy him and Schnitt tried to force him. Then he got his Dutch up. Five Thousand an Hour Ch. xviii: ‘I knew it would be a deuced lot of bother for you,’ regretted Eugene apologetically. ‘It’s a lot of face in us to ask it. So crude, you know.’. Five Thousand an Hour Ch. vi: There’s a thirty-five-thousand-dollar day almost gone. All I can credit myself with is a flivver. Five Thousand an Hour Ch. iii: ‘How fussy!’ commented Polly. ‘Which was the kind horse?’ ‘A goat by the name of Angora,’ he replied. Five Thousand an Hour Ch. xxii: ‘Glimmering gosh, Colonel!’ protested Val, as he hurried to pick up Gresham. Five Thousand an Hour Ch. vii: ‘All right, governor,’ assented Collaton a trifle sullenly. ‘I’ll fake that note for you to-night.’. Five Thousand an Hour Ch. xxiii: Has that grasping old monopolist gumshoed into town again? Five Thousand an Hour Ch. i: For heaven’s sake, Johnny, don’t say you’re hit too. Five Thousand an Hour Ch. vi: I think I’ll play hooky. I don’t want to break up the party. Five Thousand an Hour Ch. ii: He had seen long-shot horses raise false hopes before. Five Thousand an Hour Ch. iii: ‘I suppose I must take my medicine,’ said Gresham glumly. Five Thousand an Hour Ch. xvii: By the way, I owe my poker guests to Johnny Gamble [...] He’s a live member! Did I ever tell you how he helped me skin old Mort Washer? Five Thousand an Hour Ch. xxiii: You got Jacobs to buy you these bonds, and Jacobs is a piker. He confessed and begged for mercy. Five Thousand an Hour Ch. i: I didn’t know that you cared for the ponies. Five Thousand an Hour Ch. xv: I understand now why Johnny Gamble wants to make a million dollars. As soon as he gets it he’ll propose to Miss Joy, she’ll accept him and let the million slide. Five Thousand an Hour Ch. vi: I don’t believe there’s a man in New York with a straighter and cleaner record than Gamble’s. Five Thousand an Hour Ch. xiv: I’ d call to-night if I didn’ t have to be the big works at a Coney Island dinner party.