Gift of Time
by H
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Everything in the world has a price, except time, every second is every second, and no one can bargain. So I am always on business trips and devote every minute and second of my life to work, because I firmly believe that creating wealth is the proper destination of time. At the age of 45, I became a successful man with a career and capital, but my wife and son left me. Cancer sent me to the hospital, and a week ago I met the five-year-old girl in the next ward. She used crayons to color chairs, made dinosaurs out of milk cartons, and told stories to rabbit dolls, all to comfort her mother and those who came to visit her. Death is approaching day by day, but the girl is still looking forward to her mother telling her bedtime stories, going to school, and looking forward to next year's birthday party. She secretly told me that aliens in white coats would come and cure her illness. She reminds me of my own son and the things I didn't do for him. The night when the God of Death came to take the girl away, a big hole in my heart seemed to be torn open. I offered to the God of Death to exchange my life for the girl's life, but the God of Death also asked to erase all traces of me in the world. How have I spent the past 45 years, from being the son of my parents to being the father of my son? A reckoning with the past made me finally understand what time really means.
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The Gift of Time is a novel written by the famous British novelist Rutherford Derek. The story takes place in England in the early 20th century. It mainly tells the story of a wealthy family and their maid. The novel mainly revolves around the family maid Abby Putaway and her employers, the wealthy Devon couple. The story begins with Abi's wedding to a young soldier she met during her travels. However, Mrs. Devon believed that Abi was too young and her marriage was not stable, so she refused Abi's request for leave and prevented her from returning home on time. When Abi returns home to find that her husband has left her, she is devastated. Over the next few years, Abby worked for the Devon family and became romantically involved with Mrs. Devon's son, Jones. However, Jones' mother did not support the relationship, and Abby had to leave the family. At the end of the novel, after Jones's father dies, Mrs. Devon finally realizes the injustice she has done to Abi and decides to give Abi a sum of money to compensate for her pain. Abby refuses the money and decides to leave the Devon family and start a new life of her own. The entire novel focuses on the relationship between a wealthy family and a maid, revealing the injustice and class divisions in British society at that time. The novel is fascinating and has twists and turns, demonstrating Rutherford Derek's superb novel writing skills and profound insight into social reality.
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The Gift of Time is a novel written by the famous British novelist Rutherford Derek. The story takes place in England in the early 20th century. It mainly tells the story of a wealthy family and their maid. The novel mainly revolves around the family maid Abby Putaway and her employers, the wealthy Devon couple. The story begins with Abi's wedding to a young soldier she met during her travels. However, Mrs. Devon believed that Abi was too young and her marriage was not stable, so she refused Abi's request for leave and prevented her from returning home on time. When Abi returns home to find that her husband has left her, she is devastated. Over the next few years, Abby worked for the Devon family and became romantically involved with Mrs. Devon's son, Jones. However, Jones' mother did not support the relationship, and Abby had to leave the family. At the end of the novel, after Jones's father dies, Mrs. Devon finally realizes the injustice she has done to Abi and decides to give Abi a sum of money to compensate for her pain. Abby refuses the money and decides to leave the Devon family and start a new life of her own. The entire novel focuses on the relationship between a wealthy family and a maid, revealing the injustice and class divisions in British society at that time. The novel is fascinating and has twists and turns, demonstrating Rutherford Derek's superb novel writing skills and profound insight into social reality.
