SHORT STORY BY O’HENRY The Moment Of Victory Đây là một serries truyện ngắn anh ngữ nổi tiếng với những từ vựng quen thuộc. Nhằm giúp các em và các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh | SHORT STORY BY O HENRY The Moment Of Victory Ben Granger is a war veteran aged twenty-nine--which should enable you to guess the war. He is also principal merchant and postmaster of Cadiz a little town over which the breezes from the Gulf of Mexico perpetually blow. Ben helped to hurl the Don from his stronghold in the Greater Antilles and then hiking across half the world he marched as a corporal-usher up and down the blazing tropic aisles of the open-air college in which the Filipino was schooled. Now with his bayonet beaten into a cheese-slicer he rallies his corporal s guard of cronies in the shade of his well-whittled porch instead of in the matted jungles of Mindanao. Always have his interest and choice been for deeds rather than for words but the consideration and digestion of motives is not beyond him as this story which is his will attest. What is it he asked me one moonlit eve as we sat among his boxes and barrels that generally makes men go through dangers and fire and trouble and starvation and battle and such rucouses What does a man do it for Why does he try to outdo his fellow-humans and be braver and stronger and more daring and showy than even his best friends are What s his game What does he expect to get out of it He don t do it just for the fresh air and exercise. What would you say now Bill that an ordinary man expects generally speaking for his efforts along the line of ambition and extraordinary hustling in the marketplaces forums shooting-galleries lyceums battle-fields links cinder-paths and arenas of the civilized and vice versa places of the world Well Ben said I with judicial seriousness I think we might safely limit the number of motives of a man who seeks fame to three-to ambition which is a desire for popular applause to avarice which looks to the material side of success and to love of some woman whom he either possesses or desires to possess. Ben pondered over my words while a mocking-bird on the top of a mesquite by the porch .
