The Last Leaf

THE LAST LEAF:

In an area of New York, which is called Greenwich Village, lived people who were interested in art. Among these people were Sue and Joanna who were painters. They found that their tastes were so similar so they decided to set up a studio together.
In winter, a strange cold came to the city. This new disease which called pneumonia, spread Johnsy(Joanna).She was very sick andweak. The doctor said to Sue that she had one chance in ten to live, and that chance depended on her will to live. Sue told him that Johnsy hoped to paint the Bay of Naples, and this could be good for fighting for his life. Unfortunately, Johnsy wasn’t thinking in that, on the contrary she was thinking that she won’t get well.
She always was looking through the window to see the leaves fallingfrom the vine. Johnsy counted the remaining leaves and it said that when the last leaf fell, she would die. Sue thought it was crazy, so she told it to Mr. Behrman. Mr. Behrman , who was an old failed painter and lived on the ground floor below they, painted on the wall the last leaf. Two days after that, the old painter died with pneumonia because the day when he painted the leaf, was cold and itwas raining. When Johnsy saw that not a leaf fell, she hope to live again. She thought that if the leaf had not fallen yet, was because he wanted to show her that how bad she is thinking about wanting to die. Then, Johnsy returned to want to paint the Bay of Naples.
Fortunately she survived thanks a Mr. Behrman’s masterpiece.

MAMMON AND DE ARCHER:

Old Anthony Rockwall, was retiredmanufacturer and owner of Rockwall’s Eureka soap, lived with his son, Richard. Anthony thought that money was the most important thing in life, but, both Richard and his aunt were disagreed with him. Richard was in love with Miss Lantry, who was going to go very soon on the road for two years. Richard was concerned because she had no time to talk to him and he wanted to speak about his feelings.Anthony told to his son that the money could resolve that problem, but Richard said him that is impossible because the money couldn’t paid any second for the Miss’ time.
His aunt gave him a ring which belonged to his mother, to give him luck in love. Richard and Miss Lantry met with her parents to go to the theater, but in the middle of the road, the ring dropped and Richard left the car to findit. Then, formed a large backlog of cars and no one could move. They would be late to the theater so she asked to see the ring. As a consequence he told her about his love and finally they were engaged.
However the jam wasn’t an accident, on the contrary was a plan of his father, who paid a women to do it. Anthony asked that women whose name was Kelly, if he had seen a little boy being with a bowin the jam. She said him that if the boy was like he said, maybe the police caught him before she got there; to what he said, laughing, that there wasn’t any archer.

WHILE THE AUTO WAITS:

When the light of day was dark, Mr. Parkenstacker, carefully watched a girl who was sitting in the park .She wore a simple and grey dress. And she also wore a hat with a veil which covering his face. Shedidn’t want to recognize themselves as wearing the veil.
This girl was reading a book calmly on a bench. Suddenly, dropped the book on the floor and Mr. Parkenstacker took and returned it to her with kindness. She offered him to sit by his side, as it was getting dark to read, so he accepted happily. At first he thought he could win the girl, but she made it very clear that she was a lady. Sohe apologized and they started to talking about people.
She confessed him that she was tired of the rich and luxurious life. She told also that was tired of pleasure, of clubs, of jewels, of travel ,of society, of money… and she wanted to love a man of low social class. She also told him about two men who wanted to marry her, Grand Duke of German and a English Marquis. Thus the girl asked him...