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Das Geschenk der Weisen und andere Geschichten

Name: Das Geschenk der Weisen und andere Geschichten
Author: O. Henry

Englischer Titel: The Gift of the Magi and Other Stories

von O. Henry · lektüre

5 Kapitel
4.282 Wörter
etwa 33 Min.

Drei von O. Henrys beliebtesten New Yorker Geschichten: ein junges, armes Paar, das jeder sein wertvollstes Gut verkauft, um dem anderen ein Weihnachtsgeschenk zu kaufen, zwei alte Freunde, die sich versprechen, sich nach zwanzig Jahren wiederzutreffen, und eine kranke junge Künstlerin, die glaubt, sie werde sterben, wenn das letzte Blatt fällt.

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One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies. Della saved them one and two at a time. She argued with the grocer, the vegetable man and the butcher about every price. Three times she counted the money. One dollar and eighty-seven cents. And the next day was Christmas.

There was nothing to do but sit down on the old little couch and cry. So Della did.

Della and her husband lived in a small flat in New York. It cost eight dollars a week. It was not a terrible place, but it was a poor one. Downstairs there was a letter box, but no letters came. There was a bell, but it did not ring. Next to the bell there was a card with a name on it: "Mr. James Dillingham Young."

A few years before, James earned thirty dollars a week. Then the long name "Dillingham" looked proud on the card. Now he earned only twenty dollars, and the name looked tired. But every evening, when James Dillingham Young came home, his wife called him "Jim" and hugged him warmly. And that was very good.