Question
What does this mean in the Gift of the Magi?
While the mistress of the house 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 certain had that word on the lookout for the mendicancy squad.
While the mistress of the house 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 certain had that word on the lookout for the mendicancy squad.
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Ms. Sue
She's moving from one mood to the other. The apartment was cheap and looked as though very poor people lived here.
https://www.auburn.edu/~vestmon/Gift_of_the_Magi.html
https://www.auburn.edu/~vestmon/Gift_of_the_Magi.html