English
It was nearly 10 o’clock at night when the policeman strolled up the avenue. Chilly gusts of wind and showers of rain had emptied the streets. He made sure that doors were locked, and swung his club as he walked along. Now and then he turned to look down side streets with his watchful eyes. […]
One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies. Pennies were saved one and two at a time by bargaining hard with the butcher and the vegetable man. Three times Della counted it. One dollar and eighty-seven cents. And the next day was Christmas. There was nothing to […]
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