An Unfinished Story

An Unfinished Story

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"An Unfinished Story" by O. Henry. Read aloud by a LibriVox volunteer. Public domain.

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Transcript

0:00 On Sunday mornings, she feasted royally on veal chops

0:03 and pineapple fritters at Billy's Restaurant

0:05 at a cost of 25 cents and tipped the waitress 10 cents.

0:12 New York presents so many temptations

0:14 for one to run into extravagance.

0:17 She had her lunches in the department store restaurant

0:19 at a cost of 60 cents for the week.

0:23 Dinners were .05.

0:25 The evening papers, show me a New Yorker

0:27 going without his daily paper,

0:30 came to 6 cents and two Sunday papers,

0:33 one for the personal column and the other to read,

0:36 were 10 cents.

0:37 The total amounts to .76.

0:41 Now, one has to buy clothes and...

0:44 I give it up.

0:45 I hear of wonderful bargains in fabrics

0:47 and of miracles performed with needle and thread,

0:50 but I am in doubt.

0:53 I hold my pen poised in vain

0:55 when I would add to Dulcy's life

0:57 some of those joys that belong to women

0:59 by virtue of all the unwritten,

1:01 sacred, natural, inactive ordinances

1:04 of the equity of heaven.

1:06 Twice she had been to Coney Island

1:08 and had ridden the hobby horses.

1:10 She hadНed up the closely with all theье Shoe issues,

1:11 who ended up making shelves

1:20 in her room in small circulates

1:21 andích was .They've been to .世

1:24 for thiseki term,

1:25 to be used in an order of yielding

1:26 to 12 years,

1:26 where was it,

1:27 could I possibly find it?

1:28 It was only quite THE position

1:29 and ran out of thisbodiness,

1:30 how did I not do that for typer,

1:33 where did I do this?

1:34 I guess,