The Gift of the Magi - Couverture souple

Henry, O

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1774816911 ISBN 13 : 9781774816912

Editeur : Independent Publisher, 2022

Synopsis

Excerpt from the book:

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 butcher until one's cheeks burned with the 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 howl. 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 subsiding from the first stage to the second, take a look at the home. A furnished flat at $8 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 Young."

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independent Publisher
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1774816911
• ISBN 13: 9781774816912
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 20
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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