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 发表: 2004-09-23 11:23:27 人气:1976  
O Henry:The Gift Of The Magi 歐 亨利：麥琪的禮物
O Henry:The Gift Of The Magi 歐 亨利：麥琪的禮物
O.Henry
The Gift of the Magi
One dollar and eighty-seven cents.That was all.And sixty cents of it was in pennies.Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the bucher until one's cheek burned with silent imputation of parsimony that such close dealing implied.Three times Della counted it.One dollar and eighty-seven cents.And the next day would be Christmas.
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and bowl.So Della did it.Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs,sniffles,and smiles,with sniffles predominating.
While the mistress of the home is gradually subsideing from the first stage to the second,take a look at the home.A furnished flat at eight dollars per week.It did not exactly beggar description,but it certainly had that word on the lookout for the mendicancy squad.
In the vestibule below was a letter box into which no letter would go,and an electric button from which no mortal finger could coax a ring.Also appertaining thereunto was a card bearing the name"Mr.James Dillingham Yourg."
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