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The Third Ingredient by O Henry

His face turned a little pale, and he stared at her blankly, like a deaf-and-dumb man who was wondering what it was all about. If we only had an onion to go in it! However, his writing and drawings had caught the attention of the editor at the. He begged me, but I wouldn't tell him my name nor where I lived, I was so ashamed. To be discharged from the department store where you have been working four years, and with only fifteen cents in your purse, does have a tendency to make your features appear more finely chiseled. When he was three years old, his mother died from tuberculosis.

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She spoke, vaguely, of friends in California and some of the lower parishes in Louisiana. When we reach the abstract we are lost. Archived from on October 19, 2014. You can make oyster-soup without oysters, turtle-soup without turtles, coffee-cake without coffee, but you can't make beef-stew without potatoes and onions. On the evening that the material allegation of facts begins, Hedges was bidding dull care begone in the com- pany of five or six good fellows -- acquaintances and friends who had gathered in his wake. This might have been an indication that she meditated suicide.

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I wish to Heaven we had an onion. I don't care what you've done. It also could be an abbreviation of the name of a French pharmacist, Eteinne-Ossian Henry, found in the U. In his hand he bore an onion--a pink, smooth, solid, shining onion as large around as a ninety-eight-cent alarm-clock. So, now you know why Hetty Pepper came to leave the Biggest Store at thirty minutes' notice, with one dime and a nickel in her purse.

The Third Ingredient by O Henry

Raincoat, a Hindi film directed by Rituparno Ghosh is an adaptation of the story, the Greek film directed by Ismene Daskarolis places it in the economical crisis of Greece today. Merriam dodged, drew a small revolver and shot Hedges in the chest. He grinned, and laid it in her hand. She was content now for the horizon of that shimmering sea to be the horizon of her life. There's a little lady--a friend of mine--in my room there at the end of the hall. But others are set in small towns and in other cities. I was as much to blame as you were; and the shot really did me good -- I came out of the hospital as healthy and fit as a cab horse.

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As a young bachelor, Porter led an active social life in Austin. He changed the spelling of his middle name to Sydney in 1898. Merriam went too, with his suit case, and remained. After funeral services in New York City, he was buried in Ashville, North Carolina. When the boat landed, he came and put me in a cab. He looked upon Hetty Pepper's homely countenance, emerald eyes, and chocolate-colored hair as a welcome oasis of green in a desert of cloying beauty.

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Both of us are out of luck; and we had just potatoes and meat between us. When he was three years old, his mother died from tuberculosis. Henry comments that ''Hetty is a Shoulder. And that is how Hetty came to be employed in the Biggest Store. There were few truer collar-bones anywhere than hers. According to the strange mathematics of the god of mutual affinity, the shadows that clouded their pasts when united became only half as dense instead of darker. I finally cast anchor in La Paz.

The Third Ingredient by O. Henry

Also, he clutched his pungent prize greedily, and, with a show of spirit, faced his grim waylayer. But one glance in her mirror always served as an instantaneous pain-killer. His daughter Margaret Worth Porter had a short writing career from 1913 to 1916. A barefooted muchacho dashed in, desiring the post of messenger. Brewster Kahle founded the Archive in 1996 at around the time that he began the for-profit web crawling company Alexa Internet.

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The plot summary for The Third Ingredient by O. Henry's love of language inspired the , an annual spoken word competition began in 1978 that takes place at the O. One afternoon he and Mrs. Hetty is not a woman to be messed with! The story of her rise to an eight-dollar-a-week salary is the combined stories of Hercules, Joan of Arc, Una, Job, and Little-Red-Riding-Hood. In them he saw the Jolly Roger fly to the masthead and an able seaman with a dirk between his teeth scurry up the ratlines and nail it there.

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As a sentimental story with a lesson about gift-giving, it has been a popular one for adaptation. And then a sail hove in sight. The story of Hetty's discharge from the Biggest Store is so nearly a repetition of her engagement as to be monotonous. When its accounts did not balance, he was blamed for it, and fired. Once while packing, a brief shadow of the lotus dream came back to her. In thisstory as in somemanyothersstories of O.

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Henry tells us, ''you can't make a beef-stew without potatoes and onions. Character Roles The stew in the story serves as a metaphor for the characters. A short story about a nearly destitute father and daughter's trip to Washington, D. It includes several of the elements of an O. Among them were two younger men -- Ralph Merriam, a broker, and Wade, his friend. William was an avid reader, and graduated from his aunt's elementary school in 1876 then enrolled at the Linsey Street High School. She sends him inside to where Cecilia is sitting.