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In the vestibule below was a letter-box into which no letter would go, and an electricbutton from which no mortal finger could coax a ring. Also appertaining thereunto was acard bearing the name "Mr. James Dillingham Young."The "Dillingham" had been flung to the breeze during a former period of prosperity whenits possessor was being paid $30 per week. Now, when the income was shrunk to $20, theletters of "Dillingham" looked blurred, as though they were thinking seriously ofcontracting to a modest and unassuming D. But whenever Mr. James Dillingham Youngcame 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 her cheeks with the powder rag. She stood by thewindow and looked out dully at a gray cat walking a gray fence in a gray backyard.To-morrow would be Christmas Day, and she had only $1.87 with which to buy Jim apresent. She had been saving every penny she could for months, with this result. Twentydollars a week doesn't go far. Expenses had been greater than she had calculated. Theyalways are. Only $1.87 to buy a present for Jim. Her Jim. Many a happy hour she hadspent planning for something nice for him. Something fine and rare andsterling—something just a little bit near to being worthy of the honor of being owned byJim.
There was a pier-glass between the windows of the room. Perhaps you have seen apier-glass in an $8 flat. A very thin and very agile person may, by observing his reflectionin a rapid sequence of longitudinal strips, obtain a fairly accurate conception of his looks.Della, being slender, had mastered the art.Suddenly she whirled from the window and stood before the glass. Her eyes were shiningbrilliantly, but her face had lost its color within twenty seconds. Rapidly she pulled downher hair and let it fall to its full length.Now, there were two possessions of the James Dillingham Youngs in which they bothtook a mighty pride. One was Jim's gold watch that had been his father's and hisgrandfather's. The other was Della's hair. Had the Queen of Sheba[13-1] lived in the flatacross the airshaft, Della would have let her hair hang out the window some day to dryjust to depreciate Her Majesty's jewels and gifts. Had King Solomon been the janitor,with all his treasures piled up in the basement, Jim would have pulled out his watch everytime he passed, just to see him pluck at his beard from envy.So now Della's beautiful hair fell about her, rippling and shining like a cascade of brownwaters. It reached below her knee and made itself almost a garment for her. And then shedid it up again nervously and quickly. Once she faltered for a minute and stood stillwhere a tear or two splashed on the worn red carpet.
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as if his right to being American w
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"He stopped and stared with those q
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"I found him. He was hurt too badly
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I heard my throat make a queer soun
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angelically, Uncle Bill. And he whi
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"'That sounds nice,' he said. Sudde
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It was nine o'clock of a wild night
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Price on John G., leading.John G. h
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the full drive of the storm. Awhile
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"Come along, John, old man. You kno
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The First Sergeant, hanging up the
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"And if the animals—they that wer
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At three o'clock she set out with M
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one boy.""No, no, my golden one," c
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of the antiquated Rover, a collie w
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"None of the boys in the school?""N
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"Is he such a little fellow?""Yiss,
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that dog is lovin' much mit him.""W
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"I guess you don't know what iss po
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Bailey; as much like a man he eats.
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"No?" queried the matron with a div
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handle. And entered Izzie, beautifu
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lap—"so-o-oh, you had friends by
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"D'ye mean it?""You bet I do! I can
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At Sunday School the campers became
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katydids singing. It gave them all
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fall, it seemed they had been a wee
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Their beds were hay, with abundant
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like garnets and rubies. And then t
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It was a little discouraging at fir
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"This is something like it. I'm goi
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she turned sideways toward the wind
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in camp on a lovely lake, with noth
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his doctor's dissertation,[114-1] t
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hearty and honest friendliness of h
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other side of me from Miss Midland
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happens this evening so he doesn't
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exclaimed. "Do you think that so mu
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square by everybody, and by women s
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on a little more style!"He took a s
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in the warm spring air, like unseen
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that." Some of his enthusiasm was r
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She looked up at him with a sudden
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are as primitive as a Sioux Indian,
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Harrison went on: "Now let me give
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Miss Midland looked at him hard. "D
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een the——" With Miss Midland's
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explained. "I'll never get over tha
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with one end of a forty-foot riata
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neighbors—a man supposed to be an
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"Courage and patience, my friend,"
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Chu Chu's belly, and her figure res
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making for the low-stretching branc
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ahead! 'Eave! There you are!"Luckil
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trustfulness I was rash enough to a
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is not company for the one! I make
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lithe contour, and as the mare arch
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after a while was content to ride w
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saddle-blanket in the brush near th
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odeo.[165-1] He speak no more; he i
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again, she had a hairpin between he
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Nevertheless, when Enriquez appeare
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and the half-frightened, half-serio
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and a whiff of smoke from Mother Ri
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fine gentleman has a pumpkin head,
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sunshine which struggled through th
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motes of dust. It seemed a convulsi
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the truth? At its present point of
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The scarecrow gasped, struggled, an
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all the coin she had about her, and
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of all this wonder-work ceased to a
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"That gold head has as much sense i
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ags, nobility would shine through a
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the gate, ascended the steps of the
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"Polly! Daughter Polly!" cried the
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self-possessed, and therefore the s
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witchcraft.The wretched simulacrum!
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"Poor fellow!" quoth Mother Rigby,
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The stout gentleman half rose from
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eing an average commonplace British
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"I begin to think, Watson," said Ho
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"Why, indeed? You seem most fortuna
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very much with one's other occupati
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the crowd, and right up to the step
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their maintenance. It is exceedingl
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"'Is to copy out the "Encyclopædia
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the door was shut and locked, with
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"I started off, Mr. Holmes, but whe
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"At half-wages, in fact?""Yes.""Wha
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the mantelpiece."Sarasate[221-1] pl
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"The knees of his trousers.""And wh
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knowledge was not that of other mor
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as Peter Jones, the official police
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Sherlock Holmes was not very commun
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attempt might be made upon it.""You
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that I could not only hear the gent
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veins. Have the goodness, also, whe
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"So far I had got when we went to v
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waiters, though I have been in the
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eached the soup, and yet he gave me
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"I beg your pardon, sir! I—I shou
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"It was a liberty," I said."I know,
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"Have you been married long, Willia
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"But she is six years old," he said
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Several days passed, and I took car
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I stamped my foot."I beg your pardo
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positions, drew himself up and rais
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the windows in the hope that Willia
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To stop him I had to say:"And, ah,
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"East.""West."I smiled, which so an
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"She told me to nod three times," t
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should get away at twelve, 'cause h
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"I said the young 'uns.""And Willia
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"Such as what?""Like whether he lar
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I had arranged that the girl Jenny,
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"William," I said, "the head waiter
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grape-shot. Just before we reached
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crying."But he is going to get well
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emember, with a heavy heart at the
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country." And then came suggestions
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Was the door of her grandfather's b
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Finally the carriage tongue did ind
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expecting a visit from our King her
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"The people are good," said the min
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said, with an air of preparing to f
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y the King's indifference. "They be
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"'We have a whole mountain,' answer
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"When the minister had gone a short
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emark that there were not fit accom
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forehead.[290-1] I shall hang now a
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eminded them of the many tragedies
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"Does he not care, then, how it goe
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O. HENRY (Page 11)Sydney Porter, wh
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BOOTH TARKINGTON (Page 19)Booth Tar
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(Return)43, 1. Nemesis. An ancient
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our own country.Miss Mayo during th
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wise tolerance as well as a shrewd
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about sixteen, he became a pupil at
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Dorothea Canfield, the author of "A
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armies of France and Spain.(Return)
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145, 1. Castilian. Of pure Spanish
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(Return)162, 2. Alfalfa. A species
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career until rather late. We owe it
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who have never heard of the author,
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Sir James Matthew Barrie, one of th
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Monsieur Daudet, like the moody, im
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She might well be called the founde
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Balzac, HonoréChouans. "A Passion
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The Wind in the Rose BushFox, JohnC
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Life's Handicap. "Betram and Bimi,"
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Stockton, FrankThe Lady or the Tige
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A Reward of Merit1. Look over the s
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