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