'A Pair of Silk Stockings - Mrs. Sommers'

'Little Mrs Sommers i day prepare herself the unexpected owner of fifteen dollars. It seemed to her a very spacious amount of m 1y, and the mien in which it stuffed and bulged her purposeless sr. porte-monnaie gave her a feeling of grandness much(prenominal) as she had non enjoyed for years. The question of investment was cardinal that occupied her greatly. For a day or cardinal she walked astir(predicate) apparently in a dreamy state, but genuinely absent in speculation and calculation. She did not wish to make hastily, to do anything she ability afterward regret. scarcely it was during the unbosom hours of the darkness when she lay bring up revolving plans in her beware that she seemed to see her elan clearly toward a proper and judicious use of the money. A dollar or two should be added to the price usually paid for Janies shoes, which would discover their lasting an appreciable clock durable than they usually did. She would fetch so and so many yards of percale for raw(a) shirt waists for the boys and Janie and cartridge clip. She had intend to make the old ones do by skillful patching. Mag should have some(prenominal) other gown. She had seen some lovely patterns, veritable bargains in the shop windows. And still there would be left nice for new stockings two pairs apiece and what touch on that would save for a while! She would get caps for the boys and sailor-hats for the girls. The vision of her subalternr brood facial expression fresh and fineness and new for in one case in their lives delirious her and made her diligent and wakeful with anticipation.\nThe neighbors sometimes talked of certain smash days that little Mrs Sommers had known beforehand she had ever persuasion of being Mrs Sommers. She herself indulged in no such morbid retrospection. She had no time no second of time to devote to the past. The unavoidably of the present absorbed her every faculty. A vision of the future(a) like som e dim, gaunt monstrosity sometimes appal her, but as luck would have it to-morrow never comes. Mrs Sommers was one who knew the value ... '