Excerpt from Nothing but MoneyWhat is the price?"The speaker was a young woman with a small basket on her arm, in which was a steak, a bunch of asparagus, and half-a-dozen eggs. She had lifted a rose geranium from the stand of a market gardener, and stood looking at its pink and white blossoms with admiring eyes."Twenty-five cents, " replied the man.The words seemed to make the flower-pot heavier, for the hand that held it went down suddenly, like a scale on receiving additional weight, and the geranium took its place among the verbenas, pansies, calceolaries, phlox and petunias on the flower-stand.A shade of disappointment fell over the young woman's face."Take it for twenty, " said the gardener.There was only a silent shake of the head, as the young woman turned away."Fifteen!"About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.