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Read the excerpt from "The Gift of the Mags" by O. Henry. What is the tone of the opening passage?
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 bulldoding the
grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one's cheeks burned with the silent imputation of parsimony that such dene 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 how. 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 sa per weer
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 rinn, Hiso
appertaining thereunto was a card bearing the name "Mr. James Dillingham Young
The "Dillinghar" had been flung to the breeze during a former period of prosperity when its possessor was being paid 530 per week. Now, when
the income was shrunk to $20, though, they were thinking seriously of contracting to a modest and unassuming D. But whenever Mr. James
Dillingham Young came home and reached his flat above he was called "Jirre and yeatly hugged by Mrs. James Dillingham Young, already
Introduced to you as Della. Which is all very good.
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