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5、ne in the world and i was happy. on saturday afternoons i didn't work. i sailed my little sailboat on san francisco bay. one saturday afternoon, i sailed out too far. the strong afternoon wind pushed my sailboat out of the bay, into the pacific ocean. that night, when i had lost all hope, a smal

6、l british brig saw me and took me on board. the brig was sailing to london. the voyage was long and stormy. i earned my passage without pay. when i arrived in london, my clothes were ragged and shabby, and i had only a dollar in my pocket. this money fed and sheltered me twenty-four hours. during th

7、e next twenty-four i went without food and shelter. at about ten o'clock the following morning, i went to portland place. i saw a child walking past, holding a big pear. the child ate one small piece and then threw the pear onto the street. i stopped, of course, and fastened my desiring eye on t

8、hat muddy treasure. my mouth watered for it, my stomach craved it, my whole being begged for it. but every time i made a move to get it some passing eye detected my purpose, and of course i straightened up then, and looked indifferent, and pretended that i hadn't been thinking about the pear at

9、all. this same thing kept happening and happening, and i couldn't get the pear. i was just getting desperate enough to brave all the shame, and to seize it, when a window behind me was raised, and a gentleman spoke out of it, saying: "step in here, please." a well-dressed servant opene

10、d the door. he took me to a beautiful room where two elderly gentlemen were sitting and discussing something important. they had just finished their breakfast, and the sight of the remains of it almost overpowered me. i could hardly keep my wits together in the presence of that food, and i stared at

11、 their breakfast.i want to tell the reader that the two gentlemen had made a bet several days before. i knew nothing about the bet until later. let me tell you what happened.chapter two: an unusual betthe two old gentlemen were brothers. for several days, they argued about a very strange subject. th

12、ey decided to end their argument with a bet, as the english usually do. the following was the subject of the bet.the bank of england issued two banknotes of a million pounds each for a public transaction with a foreign country. england used one banknote and the other remained in the bank. at this po

13、int, brother a said to brother b, "if an honest and intelligent stranger arrives in london without a friend and without money, except for the 1,000,000 banknote, he will starve to death."brother b answered, "no! i don't agree."brother a said, "if he goes to the bank or a

14、nywhere else to change this big note, the police will put him in prison. everyone will think he stole it."they continued arguing for days, until brother b said, "i'll bet 20,000 that the stranger will live for thirty days with the banknote and not go to prison."brother a accepted

15、the bet. he went to the bank and bought the 1,000,000 banknote. after, he returned home and prepared a letter. then the two brothers sat by the window and waited for the right man for the bet.they saw a lot of honest faces go by, but they were not intelligent enough. several faces were intelligent,

16、but they were not honest. a lot of faces were honest and intelligent, but they were not poor enough. other faces were honest, intelligent and poor, but they were not strangers.when they saw me from the window, they thought i was the right man. they asked me questions, and soon they knew my story.fin

17、ally, they told me i was the right man for the bet. i asked them to explain the bet. one of the gentlemen gave me an envelope. i wanted to open it, but he said, "no, don't open it now. wait until you are in your hotel room. then read it very carefully."i was confused and i wanted to di

18、scuss the subject with them. but they didn't; so i took my leave, feeling hurt and insulted because i was the subject of a joke.when i left their house, i looked for the pear on the street. it was gone. i was quite angry with those two gentlemen.chapter three: at the restaurantfar from their hou

19、se, i opened the envelope and saw that it contained money! my opinion of those people changed, i can tell you! i lost not a moment, but shoved note and money into my vest pocket, and broke for the nearest cheap eating house. well, how i did eat! when at last i couldn't hold any more, i took out

20、my money and unfolded it, took one glimpse and nearly fainted. five millions of dollars! why, it made my head swim. i was speechless. i stared at the banknote. the two gentlemen had made a big mistake. they probably wanted to give me a one-pound banknote.the first thing i noticed, then, was the land

21、lord. his eye was on the note, and he was petrified. he was worshiping, with all his body and soul, but he looked as if he couldn't stir hand or foot. i did not know what to do or say, so i simply give him the note and said, "give me the change, please."then he was restored to his norm

22、al condition, and made a thousand apologies for not being able to break the bill, and i couldn't get him to touch it. he wanted to look at it, and keep on looking at it; he couldn't seem to get enough of it to quench the thirst of his eye, but he shrank from touching it as if it had been som

23、ething too sacred for poor common clay to handle. i said: "i am sorry if it is an inconvenience, but i must insist. please change it; i haven't anything else." but he said that wasn't any matter; he was quite willing to let the trifle stand over till another time. i said i might no

24、t be in his neighborhood again for a good while; but he said it was of no consequence, he could wait, and, moreover, i could have anything i wanted, any time i chose, and let the account run as long as i pleased. he said he hoped he wasn't afraid to trust as rich a gentleman as i was, merely bec

25、ause i was of a merry disposition, and chose to play larks on the public in the matter of dress. by this time another customer was entering, and the landlord hinted to me to put the monster out of sight; then he bowed me all the way to the door.chapter four: the letteri started straight for that hou

26、se and those brothers, to correct the mistake which had been made before the police should hunt me up, and help me do it. i was pretty nervous; in fact, pretty badly frightened, though, of course, i was no way in fault; but i knew men well enough to know that when they find they've given a tramp

27、 a million-pound bill when they thought it was a one-pounder, they are in a frantic rage against him instead of quarreling with their own near-sightedness, as they ought. as i approached the house my excitement began to abate, for all was quiet there, which made me feel pretty sure the blunder was n

28、ot discovered yet. i rang. the same servant appeared. i asked for those gentlemen. "they are gone," the servant said."gone? gone where?""oh, on a journey.""but, where did they go?""to the continent, i think.""the continent?""yes, sir.&

29、quot;"when will they be back?""in a month.""a month! oh, this is awful! give me some sort of idea of how to get a word to them. it's extremely important.""i can't, indeed. i've no idea where they've gone, sir." "then i must see a member of

30、 the family.""family's away, too; been abroad months - in egypt and india, i think." "man, there's been an immense mistake made. they'll be back before night. will you tell them i've been here, and that i will keep coming till it's all made right, and they nee

31、dn't be afraid?" "i'll tell them, if they come back, but i am not expecting them. they said you would be here in an hour to make inquiries, but i must tell you it's all right, they'll be here on time and expect you."so i had to give it up and go away. what a riddle it

32、all was! i was like to lose my mind. they would be here "on time." what could that mean? oh, the letter would explain, maybe. i had forgotten the letter; i got it out and read it. this is what it said: "you are an intelligent and honest man, as one may see by your face. we conceive yo

33、u to be poor and a stranger. in this envelope you will find some money. it is lent to you for thirty days, without interest. report at this house at the end of that time. i have a bet on you. if i win this bet, you can have any job with any salary that you want.”no signature, no address, no date. we

34、ll, it was just a deep, dark puzzle to me. i hadn't the least idea what the game was, nor whether harm was meant me or a kindness. i went into a park, and sat down to try to think it out, and to consider what i had best do. at the end of an hour, i made the decision that follows.maybe those men

35、mean me well, maybe they mean me ill; no way to decide that - let it go. they've got a game, or a scheme, or an experiment, of some kind on hand; no way to determine what it is - let it go. there's a bet on me; no way to find out what it is - let it go. if i go to the bank of england to retu

36、rn the banknote, the bank will ask me lots of questions. if i tell the truth, no one will believe me. they will put me in a jail. the same result would follow if i tell a lie.i can do only one thing: i must keep the bill for a whole month. and, i must not lose it. if i help the old man to win his be

37、t, he will give me the job i want. the idea of an important job with a big salary made me happy. with this exciting idea in mind, i began walking down the streets of london.chapter five: at the tailor'sthe sight of a tailor-shop gave me a sharp longing to shed my rags, and to clothe myself decen

38、tly once more. could i afford it? no; i had nothing in the world but a million pounds. so i forced myself to go on by. but soon i was drifting back again. the temptation persecuted me cruelly. i must have passed that shop back and forth six times during that manful struggle. at last i gave in; i had

39、 to. i asked if they had a misfit suit that had been thrown on their hands. the fellow i spoke to nodded his head towards another fellow, and gave me no answer. i went to the indicated fellow, and he indicated another fellow with his head, and no words. i went to him, and he said: " 'tend t

40、o you presently."i waited till he was done with what he was at, and then he took me into a back room, and overhauled a pile of rejected suits, and selected the worst one for me. i put it on. it didn't fit, and wasn't in any way attractive, but it was new, and i was anxious to have it; s

41、o i didn't find any fault, but said, with some diffidence: "i would appreciate it if you could wait some days for the money. i haven't any small change about me." the fellow worked up a most sarcastic expression of countenance, and said:"oh, you haven't? well, of course, i

42、 didn't expect it. i'd only expect gentlemen like you to carry large change."i was nettled, and said:"my friend, you shouldn't judge a stranger always by the clothes he wears. i am quite able to pay for this suit; i simply didn't wish to put you to the trouble of changing a

43、 large note."he modified his style a little at that, and said, though still with something of an air:"i didn't mean any particular harm, but as long as rebukes are going, i might say it wasn't quite your affair to jump to the conclusion that we couldn't change any note that you

44、 might happen to be carrying around. on the contrary, we can."i handed the note to him, and said:"oh, very well; i apologize."he received it with a smile, one of those large smiles which goes all around over, and has folds in it, and wrinkles, and spirals, and looks like the place whe

45、re you have thrown a brick in a pond; and then in the act of his taking a glimpse of the bill this smile froze solid, and turned yellow, and looked like those wavy, wormy spreads of lava which you find hardened on little levels on the side of vesuvius. i never before saw a smile caught like that, an

46、d perpetuated. the man stood there holding the bill, and looking like that, and the owner hustled up to see what was the matter, and said, briskly: "well, what's up? what's the trouble? what's wanting?" i said: "there isn't any trouble. i'm waiting for my change.&q

47、uot;"come, come. give him his change, tod; get him his change! "tod retorted: "get him his change! it's easy to say, sir; but look at the bill yourself."the owner took a look, gave a low, eloquent whistle, then made a dive for the pile of rejected clothing, and began to snatc

48、h it this way and that, talking all the time excitedly, and as if to himself: "sell an eccentric millionaire such an unspeakable suit as that! tod's a fool - a born fool. always doing something like this. drives every millionaire away from this place, because he can't tell a millio

49、naire from a tramp, and never could. ah, here's the thing i am after. please get those things off, sir, and throw them in the fire. do me the favor to put on this shirt and this suit; it's just the thing, the very thing - plain, rich, modest, and just ducally nobby; made to order for a forei

50、gn prince - you may know him, sir, his serene highness the hospodar of halifax; had to leave it with us and take a mourning-suit because his mother was going to die - which she didn't. but that's all right; we can't always have things the way we - that is, the way they - there! trousers

51、all right, they fit you to a charm, sir; now the waistcoat; aha, right again! now the coat - lord! look at that, now! perfect - the whole thing! i never saw such a triumph in all my experience."i expressed my satisfaction."quite right, sir, quite right; it'll do for a makeshift, i'

52、m bound to say. but wait till you see what we'll get up for you on your own measure. come, tod, book and pen; get at it. length of leg, 32"" - and so on. before i could get in a word he had measured me, and was giving orders for dress-suits, morning suits, shirts, and all sorts of thin

53、gs. when i got a chance i said: "but, my dear sir, i can't give these orders, unless you can wait indefinitely, or change the bill." "indefinitely! it's a weak word, sir, a weak word. eternally - that's the word, sir. tod, rush these things through, and send them

54、 to the gentleman's address without any waste of time. let the minor customers wait. set down the gentleman's address and-"  "i'm changing my quarters. i will drop in and leave the new address."  "quite right, sir, quite right. one moment - let me

55、show you out, sir. there - good day, sir, good day."chapter six: the poor millionairethe impossible happened. i bought everything i wanted without money. i showed my banknote and asked for change, but every time the same thing happened. no one was able to change it.i bought all that i needed an

56、d all the luxuries that i wanted. i stayed at an expensive hotel in hanover square. i always had dinner at the hotel. but i preferred having breakfast at harris's simple eating place. harris's was the first place where i had a good meal with my million-pound note. that's where it all sta

57、rted.the news about me and my banknote was all over london. harris's eating place became famous because i had breakfast there. harris was happy with all his new customers.i lived like a rich, important man. i had money to spend. i lived in a dream. but often, i said to myself, "remember, th

58、is dream will end when the two men return to london. everything will change."my story was in the newspapers. everyone talked about the "strange millionaire with the million-pound note in his pocket." punch magazine drew a funny picture of me on the front page. people talked about ever

59、ything i did and about everything i said. they followed me in the streets.i kept my old clothes, and sometimes i wore them. it was fun when the shop owners thought i was poor. then i showed them the banknote, and, oh, how their faces changed!after ten days in london, i went to visit the american amb

60、assador. he was very happy to meet me. he invited me to a dinner-party that evening. he told me that he knew my father from yale university. he invited me to visit his home whenever i wanted.i was glad to have a new, important friend. i thought to myself, "i'll need an important friend, whe

61、n the story of the million-pound note and bet comes out."i want the reader to know that i planned to pay back all the shop owners who sold me things on credit. "if i win the bet for the old gentleman," i thought, "i will have an important job. with an important job, i will have a

62、 big salary." i planned to pay back everyone with my first year's salary.chapter seven: the dinner partythere were fourteen people at the dinner party. the duke and duchess of shoreditch, and their daughter, lady anne-grace-eleanor de bohun, the earl and countess of newgate, viscount cheapside, lord and lady blatherskite, t