Crossword-Solution: HALFACRE 8 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

Still, there is enough to reward today's reader, if only in the story's unique "point of view" and in the recognizable foibles of Henry Halfacre and his social-climbing daughter.} {The text is taken from the novelette's original appearance in Graham's Magazine, Vol.

The interest manifested by the master--I beg his pardon, the boss of the store--and the agitation among the clerks, very plainly proved that much was expected from the visit of this young lady, who was addressed, with a certain air of shop-familiarity, as Miss Halfacre--a familiarity that showed she was an habituee of the place, and considered a good customer.

Bobbinet?" "Why, we will let YOU have it for seventy, though I do think it ought to bring five more." "Surely you do not abate on pocket-handkerchiefs! One doesn't like to have such a thing TOO low." "Ah, I may as well come to the point at once with such a customer as yourself, Miss Halfacre; here is the article on which I pride myself.

Halfacre's check for one hundred dollars, and a request from the fair Eudosia that I might be delivered to her messenger.

The very morning that his eldest child, Eudosia, made her valuable acquisition, in my person, Henry Halfacre, Esq., was the owner of several hundred lots on the island of Manhattan; of one hundred and twenty-three in the city of Brooklyn; of nearly as many in Williamsburg; of large undivided interests in Milwaukie, Chicago, Rock River, Moonville, and other similar places; besides owning a considerable part of a place called Coney Island.