Oh, you are so
stupid! There's thirty-five dollars just thrown away. I SHAN'T go into
that house; we won't move a FOOT out of here. I've changed my mind about
it, and there's water in the basement besides."
"Well, I guess we can stand thirty-five dollars," mumbled the dentist,
"if we've got to."
"Thirty-five dollars just thrown out of the window," cried Trina, her
teeth clicking, every instinct of her parsimony aroused. "Oh, you the
thick-wittedest man that I ever knew. Do you think we're millionaires?
Oh, to think of losing thirty-five dollars like that." Tears were in her
eyes, tears of grief as well as of anger. Never had McTeague seen his
little woman so aroused. Suddenly she rose to her feet and slammed the
chopping-bowl down upon the table. "Well, I won't pay a nickel of it,"
she exclaimed.
"Huh? What, what?" stammered the dentist, taken all aback by her
outburst.
"I say that you will find that money, that thirty-five dollars,
yourself."
"Why--why----"
"It's your stupidity got us into this fix, and you'll be the one that'll
suffer by it."
"I can't do it, I WON'T do it. We'll--we'll share and share alike. Why,
you said--you told me you'd take the house if the water was free.
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