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 发表: 2004-09-23 11:23:48 人气:1002  
The "Dillingham" had been flung to the breeze during a former period of prosperity shen its possessor was being paid thirty dollars per week.Now,when the income was shrunk to twenty dollars,the letters of "Dillingham" looked blurred,as though they were thinking seriously James Dillingham Young came home and reached his flat above he was called "Jim" and greatly hugged by Mrs.James Dillingham Young,already introduced to you as Della.Which is all very good.
Della finished her cry and attended to her cheeks with the powder rag.She stood by the window and looked out dully at a gray cat walking a graw fence in a gray backgard.Tomorrow would be Christmas Day,and she had only one dollar and eight-seven cents with which to buy Jim a present.She had been saving every penny she could for months,with this result.Twenty dollars a week doesn't go far.Only one dollar and eighty-seven cents to buy a present for Jim,her Jim.Many a happy hour she had spent planning for something nice for him.Something fine and rare and sterling-something just a little bit near to being worthy of the honor of being owned by Jim.
There was a pier glass between the windows of the room.Perhaps you have seen a pier glass in an eight-seven flat.A very thin and very agile person may,by observing his reflection in a rapid sequedne of longitudinal strips,obtain a fairly accurate conception of his looks.Della,being slender,had mastered the art.
to be continue...
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