Q: CHAPTER XV.

"DROP IT."

For ten or twelve days after the little dinner in Berkeley Square Guss Mildmay bore her misfortunes without further spoken complaint. During all that time, though they were both in London, she never saw Jack De Baron, and she knew that in not seeing her he was neglecting her. But for so long she bore it. It is generally supposed that young ladies have to bear such sorrow without loud complaint; but Guss was more thoroughly emancipated than are some young ladies, and when moved was wont to speak her mind. At last, when she herself was only on foot with her father, she saw Jack De Baron riding with Lady George. It is quite true that she also saw, riding behind them, her perfidious friend, Mrs. Houghton, and a gentleman whom at that time she did not know to be Lady George's father. This was early in March, when equestrians in the park are not numerous. Guss stood for a moment looking at them, and Jack De Baron took off his hat. But Jack did not stop, and went on talking with that pleasant vivacity which she, poor girl, knew so well and valued so highly. Lady George liked it too, though she could hardly have given any reason for liking it, for, to tell the truth, there was not often much pith in Jack's conversation.

On the following morning Captain De Baron, who had lodgings in Charles Street close to the Guards' Club, had a letter brought to him before he was out of bed. The letter was from Guss Mildmay, and he knew the handwriting well. He had received many notes from her, though none so interesting on the whole as was this letter. Miss Mildmay's letter to Jack was as follows. It was written, certainly, with a swift pen, and, but that he knew her writing well, would in parts have been hardly legible.

1. Jack De Baron,
2. yes
3. the park
4. her father
5. . no
6. no
7. Jack De Baron riding with Lady George.
8. yes
9. one was Mrs. Houghton,
10. Lady George's father.
11. no
12. no
13. yes
14. Jack De Baron took off his hat
15. noit to her
16. Lady Georg
17. the next day
18. yes
19. yes
20. no

Numbered questions:
1. Who is Guss hoping to see?
2. did she feel neglected?
3. where di she finally see him?
4. who was she with?
5. Was she riding?
6. was Jack alone?
7. who was he with?
8. anyone else?
9. who/
10. who else?
11. Were they on foot?
12. did they stop to talk to Guss?
13. did he acknowledge them at all?
14. how>
15. did he say anything?
16. who was he talking to?
17. When did he receive a note?
18. early?
19. was he familiar with the penmanship?
20. was it neatly written?

Unlike the Spanish milled dollar the U.S. dollar is based upon a decimal system of values. In addition to the dollar the coinage act officially established monetary units of mill or one-thousandth of a dollar (symbol ), cent or one-hundredth of a dollar (symbol ), dime or one-tenth of a dollar, and eagle or ten dollars, with prescribed weights and composition of gold, silver, or copper for each. It was proposed in the mid-1800s that one hundred dollars be known as a union, but no union coins were ever struck and only patterns for the $50 half union exist. However, only cents are in everyday use as divisions of the dollar; "dime" is used solely as the name of the coin with the value of 10, while "eagle" and "mill" are largely unknown to the general public, though mills are sometimes used in matters of tax levies, and gasoline prices are usually in the form of $X.XX9 per gallon, e.g., $3.599, sometimes written as $3.59910. When currently issued in circulating form, denominations equal to or less than a dollar are emitted as U.S. coins while denominations equal to or greater than a dollar are emitted as Federal Reserve notes (with the exception of gold, silver and platinum coins valued up to $100 as legal tender, but worth far more as bullion). Both one-dollar coins and notes are produced today, although the note form is significantly more common. In the past, "paper money" was occasionally issued in denominations less than a dollar (fractional currency) and gold coins were issued for circulation up to the value of $20 (known as the "double eagle", discontinued in the 1930s). The term eagle was used in the Coinage Act of 1792 for the denomination of ten dollars, and subsequently was used in naming gold coins. Paper currency less than one dollar in denomination, known as "fractional currency", was also sometimes pejoratively referred to as "shinplasters". In 1854, James Guthrie, then Secretary of the Treasury, proposed creating $100, $50 and $25 gold coins, which were referred to as a "Union", "Half Union", and "Quarter Union", thus implying a denomination of 1 Union = $100. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. What type of system is the US dollar based on?
2. Is the Spanish dollar the same system?
3. through what legal means were monetary units established?
4. what was it called?
5. What was $100 dollars referred to as in the 1800s?
6. was there a union coin?
7. what did exist to equal a union?
8. what are used today to represent fractions of the dollar?
9. why are gas prices in the form of $X.XX9 per gallon?
10. when else is a mill used?
11. what kind?
12. are coins or paper money more comonly used today?
13. what are coins also known as?
14. what did a $25 gold coin represent?
15. what term was used in the coinage act for naming currency?
16. what year was the Act?
17. what is .10 represented by?
18. what did James Guthrie propose?
19. when?
20. what was his title?
Answer:
1. decimal
2. no
3. an act
4. the coinage act
5. a union
6. no
7. patterns for the $50 half union
8. coins
9. to represent the mill
10. levies
11. tax
12. the note form
13. unknown
14. Quarter Union
15. eagle
16. 1792
17. dime
18. creating $100, $50 and $25 gold coins
19. In 1854
20. Secretary of the Treasury