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| Тексты для экзамена 11 классаТексты для экзамена 11 классаA Cent Cut into Two Pieces I worked at an office . I wrote short stories about life in New York. This time Tripp looked more unhappy then ever. “Well , Tripp , how are you?” said I. “Have you got a dollar, Mr. “ What is the story?” I asked impatiently. “ It’s a girl. A real beauty . She had lived in a village for twenty
years and has never seen New York City before. I happened to meet her in
the street. I was passing by when she addressed me and asked where she
could find George Brown. Asked me where she could find Gorge Brawn in New He never returned to the village. But before marrying the farmer , Ada- her mane is Ada – wants to find Gorge Brown and to have a talk with him as she seems to care for him still. That is why she has come to New York … I couldn’t leave her along. She told me that she had spent all her money and that she didn’t know what to do and where to go. So I took her to a boarding house and left her there. I want you to come with me to see her.” “ What nonsense you are talking , Tripp,” said I. “ I thought you said you had a plot of a story.” “Oh , it will make a story , I assure you,” said Tripp. “ You can describe the girl and add a lot about true love – well , you know how to do it and it will cost you only four dollars.” “how will it cost me four dollars?” I asked. “ One dollar to the landlady in the boarding house,” Tripp answered , “ and two dollars to pay the girl’s fare home.” “ And the fourth dollar?” I asked . “One dollar to me ,” said Tripp, “ for whisky . Are you coming?” There was nothing to be done but I said to myself that Tripp Would never persuade me to give him his dollar for whisky. Angrily I
accompanied him to the boarding house. Tripp was right; she was a beauty. “ Gorge and I ,” she went on , “ loved each other. When he was nineteen- that had six years ago – he left the village and went to New York to earn money. He said he would come back for me. But I never heard from him any more. On the day we parted Gorge and I cut a cent into two pieces. I took one piece and he took the other , and we promised to be devoted to each other. Something has happened to him , I am sure . It certainly was very silly of me to come here looking for him. I never ever suspected what a big place New York is.” And then Tripp and I told her how important it was for her to stop looking for the unlucky Gorge and to return home at once. I paid the landlady a dollar , and the three of us left the boarding
house . I bought a ticket and a red rose for Ada. We saw her off. And then “ Can’t you make a story of it?” he asked me. “ not a line,” said I. “ ‘What?” I said , looking at him with surprise. “Oh , yes,” he answered,” my real name Gorge Brown. But what’s the use?” Without another word I took Tripp’s whisky dollar out of my pocket and put it into his hand.
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