Mai no havia vist sinó cinquanta dolars amuntegats al davant seu, i, com tots els minyons de la seva edat i estament, imaginava que totes les referencies a cents i a mils eren simples maneres fantastiques de parlar, i que semblants quantitats no existien en el món.
He had never seen as much as fifty dollars in one mass before, and he was like all boys of his age and station in life, in that he imagined that all references to "hundreds" and "thousands" were mere fanciful forms of speech, and that no such sums really existed in the world.