two young fellows; work on a tea plantation; grow tea; be situated; high up in the hills; have a dull (unexciting) life; be eager to get letters; enjoy getting letters; break the monotony of one's life; get the mail at rather long intervals; have to fetch the mail from a good way off.
The Two Young Fellows
Adams: get a lot of letters by every mail; be pleased; have a lot of friends (relatives, business contacts); look for a new job; enjoy writing letters; feel sorry for sb.
Brown: be eager to get just one letter; watch sb enviously; wait (hope) for a letter; need sth badly; feel unhappy; almost lose all hope.
Brown Gets an Idea
make up one's mind to do sth; suddenly; come into one's head (of an idea); think of a way to get a letter; be ready to pay for sth; take a decision; talk the matter over with sb; come to an agreement (arrangement) with sb.
Adams Agrees to Sell a Letter
like sb's idea; be pleased with the arrangement; have no principles; look for easy ways to make money; be ready to sell anything for money; not think of what may happen; come in (of the mail); keep one's promise; at once; hand the packet of letters to sb; let sb choose a letter from the packet; get back the rest of the letters; feel happy about sth.
Brown Chooses His Letter
pay the money; look over the letters; in silence; choose a letter; be all the same to sb; return all the letters except one; pass into sb's hands (of the letter); look through sth; without saying a single word; learn a surprising bit of news; keep quiet about sth.
Adams Wants His Letter Back
think sth over; change one's mind about sth; be eager to find out about sth; an important letter; an important piece of news; want sth back very badly; make an awful mistake; join sb; break the silence with a question; be sure that...; not expect sth to happen; be rather surprised and upset; get excited; do one's best to make sb understand sth; have a bit of an argument; be unable to do sth; get angry with sb; be unable to stand sth any longer; be ready to return the money; follow sb into his office; hope to buy the letter back; lose hope; be a good lesson to sb.
Brown Refuses to Return the Letter
a hard man; have one's own ideas about business; one's business principles; as follows; be against one's principles; a business agreement-believer have full rights to sth; stand on one's rights; argue with sb about sth; mean that...; expect sb to keep his promise; be unable to understand sth; refuse to discuss the matter any further; keep the letter.
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