1. The Gift of the Magi 1
2. A Cosmopolite in a Café 8
3. Between Rounds 15
4. A Service of Love 23
5. The Cop and the Anthem 31
6. The Love-philtre of Ikey Schoenstein 39
7. The Mammon and the Archer 45
8. Springtime à la Carte 53
9. An Unfinished Story 61
10. The Romance of a Busy Broker 69
11. The Furnished Room 74
12. The Handbook of Hymen 82
13. The Pendulum 96
14. The Last Leaf 102
15. The Count and the Wedding Guest 110
CONTENTS
16. Jeff Peters as a Personal Magnet 118
17. The Hand that Riles the World 127
18. The Exact Science of Matrimony 134
19. Conscience in Art 142
20. The Man Higher Up 150
21. Buried Treasure 166
22. Witches,Loaves 179
23. Roads of Destiny 184
24. After Twenty Years 211
25. “Next to Reading Matter” 216
26. A Double-Dyed Deceiver 234
27. A Retrieved Reformation 248
28. While the Auto Waits 258
29. One Thousand Dollars 265
30. The Marionettes 273
31. The Skylight Room 289
32. By Courier 297
33. The Pimienta Pancakes 302
34. The Sphinx Apple 315
35. The Princess and The Puma 334
36. The Chair of Philanthromathematics 342
37. Shearing the Wolf 351
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ONE DOLLAR AND EIGHTY SEVEN CENTS.That was all.And sixty cents of it
was in pennies.Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and
the vegetable man and the butcher until ones cheek burned with the silent imputarion of parsimony that such close dealing implied.Three times Della counted it.One dollar and eighty seven cents.And the next day would be Christmas.
There was clearly nothing left to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.So Della did it.Which instigates the motal reflection that life is made up of sobs,sniffles.and smiles,with sniffles predominating.
While the mistress of the home is gradually subsiding from the first stage to the second.take a look at the home.A furnished flat at $8 per week.It did not exactly beggar description, but it certainly had that word On the look Out for the mendicancy squad.
In the vestibule below was a letter box into which no letter Would go,and an electric button from which no mortal finger could coax a ring.Also appertaining thereunto was a card bearing the name“ Mr.James Dilhngham Young.”