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The Gift of the Magi
O. Henry
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The Gift of the Magi
O. Henry
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The classic holiday tale of love, devotion, and the art of givingâwritten by one of the world's best-known short-story authorsâwill delight those both new to and familiar with this timeless narrative.
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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 butcher until oneâs 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 âMr. James Dillingham Young.â
The âDillinghamâ had been flung to the breeze during a former period of prosperity when its possessor was being paid $30 per week. Now, when the income was shrunk to $20, the letters of âDillinghamâ looked blurred, as though they were thinking seriously of contract...