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SHORT STORY BY O’HENRY Schools And Schools Đây là một serries truyện ngắn anh ngữ nổi tiếng với những từ vựng quen thuộc. Nhằm giúp các em và các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh | SHORT STORY BY O HENRY Schools And Schools i Old Jerome Warren lived in a hundred-thousand-dollar house at 35 East Fifty-Soforth Street. He was a down-town broker so rich that he could afford to walk--for his health--a few blocks in the direction of his office every morning and then call a cab. He had an adopted son the son of an old friend named Gilbert--Cyril Scott could play him nicely--who was becoming a successful painter as fast as he could squeeze the paint out of his tubes. Another member of the household was Barbara Ross a stepniece. Man is born to trouble so as old Jerome had no family of his own he took up the burdens of others. Gilbert and Barbara got along swimmingly. There was a tacit and tactical understanding all round that the two would stand up under a floral bell some high noon and promise the minister to keep old Jerome s money in a state of high commotion. But at this point complications must be introduced. Thirty years before when old Jerome was young Jerome there was a brother of his named Dick. Dick went West to seek his or somebody else s fortune. Nothing was heard of him until one day old Jerome had a letter from his brother. It was badly written on ruled paper that smelled of salt bacon and coffee-grounds. The writing was asthmatic and the spelling St. Vitusy. It appeared that instead of Dick having forced Fortune to stand and deliver he had been held up himself and made to give hostages to the enemy. That is as his letter disclosed he was on the point of pegging out with a complication of disorders that even whiskey had failed to check. All that his thirty years of prospecting had netted him was one daughter nineteen years old as per invoice whom he was shipping East charges prepaid for Jerome to clothe feed educate comfort and cherish for the rest of her natural life or until matrimony should them part. Old Jerome was a board-walk. Everybody knows that the world is supported by the shoulders of Atlas and that Atlas stands on a rail- .
