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简介：A young man was shaving. His feet rested upon a broad plank embedded in mud, and the tiny glass in which he saw himself hung upon a wall of raw, reeking earth. A sky, somber and leaden, arched above h...
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简介：One summer afternoon a tall, good-looking stripling stopped in the midst of the town of New York, and asked his way to the governors house. He attracted not a little attention, and he created as much ...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：540 作者： 未知
简介：The half-hour dressing-bell rung out as Sir Duncan Forbes jumped from the hired carriage which had borne him the last stage of his journey to Kilsyth, and immediately followed his servant, who had put...
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简介：By the victory of our fleet at Manila Bay, one more of the worlds side-tracked capitals has been pulled from obscurity into main lines of prominence and the average citizen is no longer left, as in da...
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简介：It was somewhere, I think, towards the autumn of the year 1889 that the thought occurred to me that I might perhaps try to write a little in the modern way. For, hitherto, I had been, as it were, wear...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：540 作者： 未知
简介：A monuments dimensions should be determined by the importance to civilization of the events commemorated. We are not here trying to carve an epic, portray a moonlight scene, or write a sonnet; neither...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：539 作者： 未知
简介：Monsieur des Ageaux was a man of whom his best friends could not say that he shone, or tried to shine, in the pursuit of the fair sex. He was of an age, something over thirty, when experience renders ...
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简介：The older I grow, Mr. E. V. Lucas has said, the less, I find, do I want to read about anything but human beings.... But human beings, as human beings, are not enough; they must, to interest me, have q...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：538 作者： 未知
简介：The impatient cry was heard through all the narrow gloomy street, where the old richly-carved house-fronts bowed to meet one another and left for the eye's comfort only a bare glimpse of blue. It was,...
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简介：The papers collected here under the name of 'My Literary Passions' were printed serially in a periodical of such vast circulation that they might well have been supposed to have found there all the ac...
