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The Model Millionaire – Oscar Wilde (WBCHSE Class XI)

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1. Oscar Wilde is the author of The Model Millionaire.
2. Hughie Erskine is the hero (protagonist) of the story.
3. Hughie is handsome but poor.
4. Hughie lacks the ability to earn money.
5. Hughie's father left him a cavalry sword.
6. Hughie's father also left him A History of the Peninsular War in fifteen volumes.
7. Hughie receives £200 a year from his old aunt.
8. Hughie unsuccessfully tried the Stock Exchange.
9. Hughie also worked briefly as a tea merchant.
10. Hughie later tried selling dry sherry.
11. Hughie finally became an unemployed young man.
12. Hughie was in love with Laura Merton.
13. Laura Merton was the daughter of Colonel Merton.
14. Colonel Merton had served in India.
15. Colonel Merton demanded £10,000 before allowing Hughie to marry Laura.
16. Hughie's best friend was Alan Trevor.
17. Alan Trevor was a famous painter and artist.
18. Alan Trevor admired Hughie for his good looks and cheerful nature.
19. Hughie had free access to Alan Trevor's studio.
20. Alan Trevor was painting a life-size portrait of a beggar.
21. The beggar looked old, weak, and miserable.
22. Hughie felt deep sympathy for the old beggar.
23. A model received one shilling an hour for posing.
24. Alan Trevor earned 2,000 guineas for the painting.
25. Painters, poets, and physicians were traditionally paid in guineas.
26. Hughie believed the model deserved a percentage of the payment.
27. Hughie had only one sovereign and a few coppers in his pocket.
28. Hughie donated his sovereign to the old beggar.
29. The beggar thanked Hughie with a faint smile.
30. Laura lovingly scolded Hughie for his generosity.
31. Hughie met Alan Trevor later at the Palette Club.
32. Trevor told Hughie that the old model admired him.
33. Hughie even wanted to give the beggar his old clothes.
34. Alan Trevor considered the beggar's rags picturesque.
35. Trevor said, "An artist's heart is his head."
36. Trevor believed an artist should represent life, not reform it.
37. Trevor revealed that the beggar was Baron Hausberg.
38. Baron Hausberg was one of the richest men in Europe.
39. Hausberg owned houses in every capital city.
40. Baron Hausberg had hired Trevor to paint him as a beggar.
41. Hughie was shocked and embarrassed after learning the truth.
42. Trevor laughed because Hughie had given money to a millionaire.
43. Hughie feared Baron Hausberg would think him a fool.
44. Trevor praised Hughie's philanthropic spirit.
45. The next morning Monsieur Gustave Naudin visited Hughie.
46. Naudin came as Baron Hausberg's messenger.
47. Hughie first thought the visitor had come for an apology.
48. The envelope contained a cheque for £10,000.
49. The cheque was marked "A wedding present... from an old beggar."
50. The story ends with Alan Trevor's famous remark: "Model millionaires are rarer still."