ROADS OF DESTINY O.HENRY
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
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🗓️ 6 September 2023
⏱️ 52 minutes
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In this three part story, with each part having a different outcome, a young shepherd and poet leaves his home in search of adventure and finds it.
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| 0:00.0 | And the Yeah, Welcome back everyone to one thousand one classic short stories and tales. |
| 0:34.0 | Today a great O'Henry story, Roads of Destiny. |
| 0:38.0 | And now our story. |
| 0:40.0 | I go to seek on many roads what is to be. True heart and strong with love to light. Will they |
| 0:48.2 | not bear me in the fight? To order shun or wield or mold my destiny. |
| 0:54.0 | The unpublished poems of David Minyome. |
| 0:59.0 | The song was over. The words were David's, |
| 1:02.0 | the air, one of the countryside the company about the in table applauded heartily for the young poet paid for the wine |
| 1:09.6 | Only the notary m Papineau shook his head a little at the lines, for he was a man of books, and he had not drunk with the rest. |
| 1:17.5 | David went out into the village street, where the night air drove the wine paper from his head. |
| 1:23.0 | And then he remembered that he and Yvonne had quarreled that day, |
| 1:27.0 | and that he had resolved to leave his home that night to seek fame and honor in the great world outside. |
| 1:32.0 | When my poems are on every man's tongue, honor in the great world outside. |
| 1:33.0 | When my poems are on every man's tongue, he told himself, in a fine exhilaration. |
| 1:38.0 | She will, perhaps, think of the hard words she spoke this day. Except the Roysterers in the tavern, the village folk were a bed. |
| 1:47.0 | David crept softly into his room in the shed of his father's cottage and made a bundle of a small store of clothing. |
| 1:53.4 | With this upon a staff he set his face outward upon the road that ran from |
| 1:57.1 | Vernoy. |
| 1:58.7 | He passed his father's herd of sheep, huddled in their nightly pen, the sheep he heard it daily, leaving them to scatter while |
| 2:05.5 | he wrote verses on scraps of paper. |
| 2:08.4 | He saw a light yet shining in Yvonne's window, and a weakness shook his purpose of a sudden. |
| 2:14.0 | Perhaps that light meant that she rude, sleepless, her anger, |
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