THE LAST LEAF
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- “I heard the wind last night,”I thought it would have fallen. It will surely fall today. Then I’ll die.”
- “Oh!”Look,there is still one leaf on the creeper. It looks quite green and healthy. In spite of the stormand the fierce winds, it didn’t fall.”
- “You won’t die,You have to live foryour friends. What would happen to me if you die?”
- “I have been a bad girl. You have looked after me so lovinglyand I have not cooperated with you. I have been depressed andgloomy. The last leaf has shown me how wicked I have been. Ihave realised that it is a sin to want to die.”
- They tiptoed into the room. Johnsy was sleeping. Sue drew the curtains together and they went to the next room. She peeped out through the window. There was only one leaf on the creeper.It was raining heavily and an icy-cold wind was blowing. It seemed as though the leaf would fall any minute now. Behrman did not say a word. He went back to his room.
- Johnsy now has the will to live. I am confident she’ll recover soon. Now I must go downstairs and see Behrman. He is also suffering from pneumonia. But I am afraid, there is no hope for him.
- Johnsy woke up next morning. In afeeble voice she asked Sue to draw the curtains. Sue was nervous. She drew back the curtains very reluctantly. johnsy was very suprised to see the last leaf survive.Johnsy smiled weakly and closed her eyes. After every hour or so she would look out of the window and find the leaf still there.It seemed to be clinging to the creeper
- “I have something to tell you.Mr Behrman died of pneumonia this morning. He was ill foronly two days. The first day the janitor found him on his bed. His clothes and shoes were wet and he was shivering. He had been out in that stormy night.”
- In the evening, there was another storm but the leaf did not fall. Johnsy lay for a long time looking at the leaf. Then she called out to Sue.johnsy understood her mistake.Sue hugged Johnsy. Then she gave her lots of hot soup and amirror. Johnsy combed her hair and smiled brightly
- “Johnsy dear, lookout of the window. Look at that ivy leaf. Haven’t you wondered why it doesn’t flutter when the wind blows? That’s Behrman’s masterpiece. He painted it the night the last leaf fell.”
- In the afternoon the doctor came. After examining his patient he told Sue,“Johnsy now has the will to live. I am confident she’ll recoversoon. Now I must go downstairs and see Behrman. He is also sufferingfrom pneumonia. But I am afraid, there is no hope for him.”
- The next morning Sue came and sat on Johnsy’s bed. Taking Johnsy’s hand in hers she said about mr.Behrman death.Then they found a ladder and a lantern still lighted lying near his bed. There were also some brushes and green and yellow paints on the floor near the ladder.
- BY O.HENRY
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