The ￡1，000，000 Bank Note 百万英镑.DOC

Part One: From San Francisco to London When I was 27 years old, I worked in an office in San Francisco. I did my job well and my future was promising￠ù. I was alone in the world and I was ￠ú happy. On Saturday afternoons I didnt work. I sailed my little sailboat on San Francisco Bay. One Saturday afternoon, I sailed out too far. The strong afternoon wind pushed my sailboat out of the bay, into the Pacific Ocean. That night, when I had lost all hope, a small British brig￠? saw me and took me on board. The brig was sailing to London. The voyage was long and stormy. I worked as a sailor to pay for my trip. When I arrived in London, my clothes were old and dirty. I had only one dollar in my pocket. With this dollar, I ate and slept for the first twenty-four hours. During the next twenty-four hours, I didnt eat and I didnt sleep. At about ten oclock the following morning, I went to Portland Place. I saw a child walking past, holding a big pear. The child ate one small piece and then threw the pear onto the street. I stopped and looked at it. I was very hungry and I really wanted that pear. But every time I tried to get it, someone passed by and looked at me. I quickly turned in the other direction and waited for the person to pass by. I tried again and again to get that pear, but the same thing happened. I was desperate￠ü. I decided to get the pear and not to worry about the people who saw me. At that moment, a gentleman opened a window behind me and said, Come in here, please. ￠ù promising: ￡¨′?′|??￡?óD?°í?μ??￡ ￠ú sailboat:￡¨D?￡?·?′??￡ ￠? brig:￡¨???|￡?·?′??￡ ￠ü desperate: ??í?μ??￡ honest and intelligent, but they were not poor enough￠ù. Other faces were honest, intelligent and poor, but they were not strangers. When they saw me from the window, they thought I was the