He's earning very
good money. He makes seven pounds a week now and he's got prospects."
I never wasted
good money of mine, nor lost it neither; and I'll trick 'em again.
"If I could once ketch that consarned old thief," exclaimed Abner righteously, "I'd make him dance,--workin' off a stolen sleigh on me an' takin' away my
good money an' cider press, to say nothin' o' my character!"
That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as
good money! An obliging stranger, under pretence of compactly folding up my bank-notes for security's sake, abstracts the notes and gives me nutshells; but what is his sleight of hand to mine, when I fold up my own nutshells and pass them on myself as notes!
And curious it was, I decided, this whim of nature that made men happy in spending
good money for beer for a fellow like me who didn't want it.
"What should I do--I, who have paid my
good money for him?"
"My daughter," exclaimed my guide, "I have brought you the famous dog belonging to the baker which can tell
good money from bad.
You never got anywhere working for your relatives, he said, so when he was a journeyman he went to Vienna and worked in a big fur shop, earning
good money. But a young fellow who liked a good time didn't save anything in Vienna; there were too many pleasant ways of spending every night what he'd made in the day.
But we all know that she hates parting with
good money; and the rest of the family have no particular interest in keeping Madame Olenska here."
Peter Winn, SIR: I send you respectfully by express a pigeon worth
good money. She's a loo-loo--"
I make
good money, an' you wouldn't want for anything.
Good money!' Jeremiah picked the bill up, looked at the total with a bloodshot eye, took a small canvas bag from his pocket, and told the amount into his hand.
