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GOLD - GOLD - GOLD - GOLD. Bright and Yellow, Hard and Cold, Molten, Graven, Hammered, Rolled, Hard to Get and Light to Hold; Stolen, Borrowed, Squandered - Doled.
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Marcus
There's no water... within a hundred miles o' here!
[the two men hopelessly stand by the dead mule in the middle of the desert]
Marcus
We... are... dead... men!
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McTeague
[Trina won't let him in the house, and won't give him any money or food]
Come on, Trina, I wouldn't even treat a dog like this!
Trina
[shows where her fingers were amputated]
Not even if he... bit you?
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I never truckled; I never took off the hat to Fashion and held it out for pennies. By God, I told them the truth. They liked it or they didn't like it. What had that to do with me? I told them the truth; I knew it for the truth then, and I know it for the truth now. FRANK NORRIS.
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Trina
Let's go sit on the sewer.
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Trina's miserly attitude grew steadily through the following months... but her brusque outburst of affection kept her tolerable to the slow-thinking McTeague.
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Marcus
Don't do anything I wouldn't do... you know!
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Trina
I'll see you starve before you get another penny... of my money!
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McTeague
He ate some loco-weed. We'd better finish him... t'ain't right to let'um suffer.
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Trina
[counting her money]
$750, oh how I saved and slaved for you. Nobody will ever have you.
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Trina
[looking in her change purse full of coins, closes it]
I got no small change, Mac.
[McTeague pays for her orchid]
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Lottery Agent
On presentation of your ticket... you will receive a check for five thousand dollars!
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McTeague
Better gimme a nickel for carfare - it's a long walk - an it's gonna rain.
Trina
A big fellow like you... 'fraid of a little walk!
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Trina
[McTeague sent her to the butcher with $1.00 to get some meat, turning up her nose at the prices]
Got anything cheaper?
Butcher
[picks up a bucket]
Three days old.
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McTeague
[after Trina pockets his $1 and buys a 15 cent old mutton chop]
Where's my change?
Trina
It takes money to live, Mac.
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McTeague
The part I liked best was the guy that played 'Nearer My God to Thee' on the beer bottles.
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Marcus
Mac, old pal, I wantcha to shake hands with my cousin, Trina Sieppe. She's my sweetie!
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For quite some time, McTeague had his eye on a little house... that they might be by themselves.
McTeague
What d'yer think?
Trina
We can't afford such extravagance. Thirty-five dollars... and the water extra!
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First... chance had brought them face to face; now... mysterious instincts, as ungovernable as the winds of the heavens, were knitting their lives together.
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