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| 2 | 5 | This money, I had View more quotes about gathered">gathered, was in the nature of some sort of a retainer. |
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| 2 | 2 | It must have been about ten minutes after eight in the evening. |
| 2 | 3 | It was now some six weeks after my test, or interview, or whatever it had been, in the photographer's studio. |
| 2 | 4 | On each Monday of these six weeks I had received in the mail, in a plain white envelope without a return address, a one-hundred-dollar bill. |
| 2 | 5 | This money, I had gathered, was in the nature of some sort of a retainer. |
| 2 | 6 | I recalled that the man who had first seen me at the perfume counter, he who seemed to be in charge of the group, had said that he recognized that my time, as of now, was valuable. |
| 2 | 7 | I was still not clear on what he had meant by the phrase 'as of now. |
| 2 | 8 | ' These bills, until a few days ago, had been my only evidence that the men had not forgotten me. |