文档介绍：T T ? ? h h ? ? à à é é ? ? w w g g t t ? ? x x D D e e d d i i c c a a t t e e d d t t o o R R e e d d a a n n d d N N a a t t a a l l i i a a —— a a s s w w e e e e t t t t a a l l e e o o f f n n e e w w l l o o v v e e b b l l o o s s s s o o m m i i n n g g A date . . .with Elena Gilbert! Matt nervously opened his wallet again and counted his cash. A ten dollar bill and six cents left over from what the six ne ighbors on the cul-de-sac had given him to rake all the autumn leaves from each yard into a giant bonfire-pile. The rest had gone into buying this crisp new pair of casual/formal dress pants. Seven dollars and twenty cents left over from cleani ng attics and mowing lawns—the re st of that money had been carefully invested in the jack et he was wearing right now—a letterman’s jacket wouldn’t do, not on this occasion, and he’d heard that Elena didn’t like them. A ten dollar bill from helping Mr. Muldoon carefully change all the light bulbs in his house that the old gentleman couldn’t reach any longer. Twenty-seven dollars an d twenty-six cents . . . plus . . . He turned the wallet around and pulled it out from its special place of honor—a partment in the wallet’s side. An d there it was, folded in half, as crisp and new-looking as when Uncle Joe had given it to him. A hundred dollar bill. He could remember Uncle Joe—Great-Unc le, really, but always called Uncle, pressing the bill into his hand while the nurses were out of the room. “Don’t blow it on just anything,” Uncle Joe had whispered in his grating voice. “Keep it till a special es. You’ll know when the time is right. An’ fer God’s sake”—a pause, while Uncle Joe had a long and racking coughing fit and Matt held him up—“don’t y’dare spend it on cigarettes, ri ght? Don’t you get the habi t, boy, cause it’s only going to bring you grief.” Then Matt had gently lowered