the four million author o henry release date august 2001 ebook 2776 most recently updated january 14 2012 edition 11 language english character set encoding iso 8859 1 start of the project gutenberg ebook the four million
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... and the latter deals with the analysis ofthe text for discussion 1. 5 Data collection The text is taken from one ofthemost famous short stories by OHenryThe Last Leaf” in his collection The ... presents the rationale ofthe study, the aims ofthe study, scope ofthe study, methods ofthe study, data collection, and the research design Chapter two – Theoretical Background – supplies some ... metafunctions and cohesion The focus ofthe study, however, does not lie in the theoretical findings but hopefully, on this fundamental theory, will enlighten the text analysis 1. 4 Methods ofthe Study...
... (19 63), Literature History ofthe United States, The Macmillan Company-London 327 Tuyển tập B o c o “Hội nghị Sinh viên Nghiên cứu Khoa học” lần thứ Đại học Đà Nẵng - 2008 [2] Voss, Arthur (19 73), ... 4 .1 Tình yêu hy sinh thểThe Gift ofthe Magi” OHenry 4.2 Tình yêu hy sinh thểThe Sensible Thing” Fitzgerald 4.3 Phân tích, đối chiếu quan niệm tình yêu hy sinh thểThe Gift ofthe Magi” O ... + Giai o n 2: giai o n ước mong thuộc nhau, sống + Giai o n 3: giai o n lòng khát khao yêu thương hy sinh cho Tình yêu George Jonquil đạt đến đỉnh điểm giai o n Những họ cần làm cho tình...
... know I didn't miss it out ofthe book I sat and read that book for four hours All the wonders of education was compressed in it I forgot the snow, and I forgot that me and old Idaho was on the ... in the world, the number ofthe stars, how long it takes for chicken pox to break out, what a lady's neck ought to measure, the veto powers of Governors, the dates ofthe Roman aqueducts, how ... Idaho and the other gay Lutherans ofthe town got every minute ofthe rest ofthe week that they could I never imagined that Idaho was trying to work on Mrs Sampson with old K M.'s rules of courtship...
... the noise of hippopotamuses frolicking at their bath From the trees garlands and massive pendants ofthe melancholy grey moss ofthe South Indeed, the Cibolo ranch-house seemed more ofthe South ... his only son Ransom wanted to marry a Curtis, the last youthful survivor ofthe other end ofthe feud ***** For a while the only sounds to be heard at the store were the rattling ofthe tin spoons ... grassthatched jacals ofthe Mexicans who bestowed their allegiance upon the Cibolo The ranch-house was composed offour large rooms, with plastered adobe walls, and a two-room wooden ell A twenty-feet-wide...
... house, won't you?" Would I? I rang the bell ofthe Telfair house violently Some sort of a human came to the door and shooed me into the drawing-room "Oh, well," said I to myself, looking at the ... may seem to the lovers in the world who confide their sorrows only to the night wind and the gibbous moon, I laid bare my secret to that wreck of all things that you would have supposed to be in ... it only took me about six minutes to lay him out "Some ofthe swallowtails dragged him up against some steps and began to fan him Another one of 'em comes over to me and says: "'Young man, you...
... ship of affairs could but sail on to the advantageous port of a fine, fat fee The thing for him to do, of course, was to wring the best bargain he could from some one of his anxious cargo First ... two-edged sword to lop off the shackles of Hymen He had been known to build up instead of demolishing, to reunite instead of severing, to lead erring and foolish ones back into the fold instead of scattering ... honest well, anyhow, your professional opinion on the merits ofthe mixup I want you to size up the catastrophe abstractly you understand? I'm Mr Nobody; and I've got a story to tell you...
... went over to theO' Brien cottage As he neared the porch on the crooked walk from the gate he heard sounds of revelry within He stopped and looked through the honeysuckle vines in the open door ... spiritual or real Old? He would show them By the next mail went an order to San Antonio for an outfit ofthe latest clothes, colours and styles and prices no object The next day went the recipe for the ... is only to bring us to the point where you may be told why Dry Valley shook up the insoluble sulphur in the bottle So long-drawn and inconsequential a thing is history the anamorphous shadow of...
... almost together Sue look solicitously out ofthe window What was there to count? There was only a bare, dreary yard to be seen, and the blank side ofthe brick house twenty feet away An old, old ... dey drop off from a confounded vine? I haf not heard of such a thing No, I will not bose as a model for your fool hermit-dunderhead Vy you allow dot silly pusiness to come in der brain of her? ... when they went upstairs Sue pulled the shade down to the window-sill, and motioned Behrman into the other room In there they peered out the window fearfully at the ivy vine Then they looked at...
... flowers most potent weapons of insidious May With the cool pulses of a virgin of Cologne she withstood the attack ofthe ethereal mildness The arrows ofthe pleasant sunshine fell back, frostbitten, ... from the cold panoply of her unthrilled bosom The odour ofthe flowers waked no soft sentiments in the unexplored recesses of her dormant heart The chirp ofthe sparrows gave her a pain She mocked ... but I'm worth a comfortable lot of money If half a million dollars' worth of Government bonds and the true affection of a heart that, though no longer beating with the first ardour of youth, can...
... lines of thought You would have thought he was a professor ofthe weather and politics and chemistry and natural history and the origin of derivations Any subject you brought up old Cal could ... every pound of wool to pay the expenses "Along about Tuesday Uncle Cal put out for San Antone on the last wagonload of wool Marilla's uncle Ben, who lived in Birdstail, come over and stayed at the ... you ever rode a saddle without a horse, or fired off a gun that wasn't loaded, or took a drink out of an empty bottle, why, then you might have been able to scare an opera or two out ofthe instrument...
... ambition, which is a desire for popular applause; to avarice, which looks to the material side of success; and to love of some woman whom he either possesses or desires to possess." Ben pondered over ... San Augustine Rifles, Company D, ofthe Fourteenth Texas Regiment Our company was among the first to land in Cuba and strike terror into the hearts ofthe foe I'm not going to give you a history ... up You'd have expected him to gravitate naturally to the job of an orderly to the colonel, or typewriter in the commissary but not any He created the part ofthe flaxen-haired boy hero who lives...
... the faculty of ruling The combination was one worth going miles to see Josefa while riding her pony at a gallop could put five out of six bullets through a tomato-can swinging at the end of ... night-robe, came to her door and called to the king in his own room across the brick-paved hallway: "Say, pop, you know that old Mexican lion they call the 'Gotch-eared Devil' -the one that killed Gonzales, ... side they galloped across the smooth grass, the princess and the man who was kind to animals The prairie odours of fruitful earth and delicate bloom were thick and sweet around them Coyotes yelping...
... you, Sam?" "No fear of it," says I "He don't seem to be much of a home body But we've got to fix up some plan about the ransom There don't seem to be much excitement around Summit on account of ... tree toad, waiting for the messenger to arrive Exactly on time, a half-grown boy rides up the road on a bicycle, locates the pasteboard box at the foot ofthe fence-post, slips a folded piece of ... hundred dollars from the box under the tree, according to the original proposition, Bill was counting out two hundred and fifty dollars into Dorset's hand When the kid found out we were going to leave...
... in the saddle for a long ride he heard the drumming of hoofs, the hollow "thwack" of chaparral against wooden stirrups, the whoop of a Comanche; and Wells Pearson burst out ofthe brush at the ... again, "there's nothing like you come off the sheep ranges before You talk good and collateral to the occasion And if there's more than one?" "Then," said Burrows, "we'll pick our choice and one of ... moments the horses were fastened and Pearson was pounding cheerfully on the door of old Sutton, the storekeeper The barrel of a Winchester came through a cranny of a solid window shutter followed...
... posse directions for the onslaught upon Calliope The plan was to accomplish the downfall ofthe Quicksand Terror without loss to the attacking party, if possible The splenetic Calliope, unconscious ... stood by a shed full of sacked wool, a consignment from one ofthe sheep ranches On this truck the marshal and his men piled three heavy sacks of wool Stooping low, Buck Patterson started for ... approach ofthe morning train until he was within a few feet ofthe platform The train was coming up on the other side of it It stopped only one minute at Quicksand What an opportunity it would offer...
... furnished in the second floor ofthe First National Bank building; and it was for the colonel to cause The Rose of Dixie to blossom and flourish or to wilt in the balmy air ofthe land of flowers The ... conferred upon you But I must ask you to cease your jibes and derogatory comments upon the South and the Southern people They, sir, will not be tolerated in the office ofThe Rose of Dixie for ... that you've been publishing just because the writers are related to the Skoopdoodles of Skoopdoodle County Are you with me?" "As long as I continue to be the editor ofThe Rose," said Colonel...