A christmas gift
Ben hillman had a girl friend whom he loved very much. he was going to marry her soon. But one day she was run over by a car and died the next day.
Ben decided that he would never marry at all. He always went to his store opened it at nine and closed it at six. He had dinner alone at a restaurant and went back home.
Five years passed. He looked like a sick man. Though he was thirty, he looked much older
A few days before christmas a little girl came into his store. Her eyes were deep blue.
Hello said the girl to ben when she came up to the counter. Will you sell me the pearl brooch you have in the window
OK said ben. Do you want to buy it for someone you like
Yes said the girl. I’m going to buy it for my big sister. She takes care of me because my mother died a long time ago.
The girl took out all the coins that she had in her pocket
This is all I had in my bank she said. “two dollars seventy-five cents.”
The price was written in small letters on the back of the brooch. It was sevennty-nine dollars. The girl did not see it.
“Is it enough?” asked the little girl.
“well,…yes, of course it’s all right,” said ben. “I’ll wrap it up as a gift.”
About six o’clock that day a young woman with deep blue eyes hurried into the store.
She showed ben a case and said, “This is the brooch my little sister bought here. I think this is worth sixty or seventy dollars. Perhaps she had only a dollar or two, and I don’t think anyone will lend her money.”
“but she paid me the biggest price anyone can pay. She paid me all her money,” said ben.
Ben wrapped the brooch case again in new paper, and said this is your sister’s gift to you. I am a lonely man without friends, and I don’t have anyone to give a christmas present to. When I saw your sister’s blue eyes, I remembered my girl friend. She died five years ago. She was the only girl I ever loved in my life.”
On christmas Eve,Ben was invited to dinner by the young woman’s family. He had a merry christmas for the first time in five years.
A christmas gift
Ben hillman had a girl friend whom he loved very much. he was going to marry her soon. But one day she was run over by a car and died the next day.
Ben decided that he would never marry at all. He always went to his store opened it at nine and closed it at six. He had dinner alone at a restaurant and went back home.
Five years passed. He looked like a sick man. Though he was thirty, he looked much older
A few days before christmas a little girl came into his store. Her eyes were deep blue.
Hello said the girl to ben when she came up to the counter. Will you sell me the pearl brooch you have in the window
OK said ben. Do you want to buy it for someone you like
Yes said the girl. I’m going to buy it for my big sister. She takes care of me because my mother died a long time ago.
The girl took out all the coins that she had in her pocket
This is all I had in my bank she said. “two dollars seventy-five cents.”
The price was written in small letters on the back of the brooch. It was sevennty-nine dollars. The girl did not see it.
“Is it enough?” asked the little girl.
“well,…yes, of course it’s all right,” said ben. “I’ll wrap it up as a gift.”
About six o’clock that day a young woman with deep blue eyes hurried into the store.
She showed ben a case and said, “This is the brooch my little sister bought here. I think this is worth sixty or seventy dollars. Perhaps she had only a dollar or two, and I don’t think anyone will lend her money.”
“but she paid me the biggest price anyone can pay. She paid me all her money,” said ben.
Ben wrapped the brooch case again in new paper, and said this is your sister’s gift to you. I am a lonely man without friends, and I don’t have anyone to give a christmas present to. When I saw your sister’s blue eyes, I remembered my girl friend. She died five years ago. She was the only girl I ever loved in my life.”
On christmas Eve,Ben was invited to dinner by the young woman’s family. He had a merry christmas for the first time in five years.
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