qpAbout ten o'clock on the following morning, edy and hungry, I was dragging mylf along Portland Place, when a child that was passing, towed by a nur-maid, tosd a luscious big pear—minus one bite—into the gutter. I stopped, of cour, and fastened my desiring eye on that muddy treasure. My mouth watered for it, my stomach craved it, my whole being begged for it. But every time I made a move to get it some passing eye detected my purpo, and of cour I straightened up then, and looked indifferent, and pretended that I hadn't been thinking about the pear at all. This same thing kept happening and happening, and I couldn't get the pear. I was just getting desperate enough to brave all the shame, and to ize it, when a window behind me was raid, and a gentleman spoke out of it, saying:
记忆王英语>风笛手"Step in here, plea."
I was admitted by a gorgeous flunkey, and shown into a sumptuous room where a couple of elderly gentlemen were sitting. They nt away the rvant, and made me sit down. They had just finished their breakfast, and the sight of the remains of it almost overpower
ed me. I could hardly keep my wits together in the prence of that food, but as I was not asked to sample it, I had to bear my trouble as best I could.weif
Now, something had been happening there a little before, which I did not know anything about until a good many days afterwards, but I will tell you about it now. Tho two old brothers had been having a pretty hot argument a couple of days before, and had ended by agreeing to decide it by a bet, which is the English way of ttling everything.
warbleYou will remember that the Bank of England once issued two notes of a million pounds each, to be ud for a special purpo connected with some public transaction with a foreign country. For some reason or other only one of the had been ud and canceled; the other still lay in the vaults of the Bank. Well, the brothers, chatting along, happened to get to wondering what might be the fate of a perfectly honest and intelligent stranger who should be turned adrift in London without a friend, and with no money but that million-pound bank-note, and no way to account for his being in posssion of it. Brother A said he would starve to death; Brother B said he wouldn't. Brother A said he co
魏骁勇uldn't offer it at a bank or anywhere el, becau he would be arrested on the spot. So they went on disputing till Brother B said he would bet twenty thousand pounds that the man would live thirty days, anyway, on that million, and keep out of jail, too. Brother A took him up. Brother B went down to the Bank and bought that note. Just like an Englishman, you e; pluck to the backbone. Then he dictated a letter, which one of his clerks wrote out in a beautiful round hand, and then the two brothers sat at the window a whole day watching for the right man to give it to.
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