This is an old story about a poor young man who was in love with a rich beautiful girl.
They both lived in London. The girl's house, a big comfortable house, was situated in a quiet street near an old park. The young man lived on the outskirts of the city in an old wooden hut near the docks.
One day the girl invited the young man to come to dinner on her birthday. The young man wanted to make her a present. He wanted to buy something beautiful for her, but he did not know how to do it, as he had little money.
The next morning he went to a shop. There were many fine things there: rings, watches and what not.
But all of them were very expensive. Then he saw a vase, it was so beautiful that he could not take his eyes off. That was a good present for his sweetheart, but it was also rather expensive.
As he was looking at the vase for about half an hour, the manager of the shop had noticed him. The young man looked so pale, sad and unhappy that the manager understood everything and decided to help him.
He showed the young man another vase broken into many pieces and said:
"I shall order my servant to pack it and take it to your sweetheart. When he enters the house he will fall down and drop it. The girl will think that the servant broke the vase."
On the birthday the servant came to the girl's house and fell down as soon as he entered the room full of people. There was horror on the faces of the guests, the girl began to cry. But when she unpacked the vase everybody saw that each piece was packed separately. And that, was the end of the young man's love.
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