类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： NEITHER her Gaudiness the Mistress of the Robes, or her Dreaminess the Queen were feeling quite themselves. In the Palace all was speculation. Would they be able to attend the Ftes in honour of King Jotifa, and Queen Thleeanouhee of the Land of Dates...
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简介： SCHOLARS have been good enough to notice this book; and the majority have treated it very kindly, doubtless because they have perceived that the author has observed all the established rules of historical research and accuracy. Their kindness has tou...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Initial variste Gamelin, painter, pupil of David, member of the Section du Pont-Neuf, formerly Section Henri IV, had betaken himself at an early hour in the morning to the old church of the Barnabites, which for three years, since 21st May 1790, had...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： HE salon which the Cardinal-Archbishop used as a reception room had been fitted, in the time of Louis XV., with panellings of carved wood painted a light grey. Seated figures of women surrounded by trophies filled the angles of the cornices. The mirr...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Jean Servien was born in a back-shop in the _Rue Notre-Damedes Champs_. His father was a bookbinder and worked for theReligious Houses. Jean was a little weakling child, and his mothernursed him at her breast as she sewed the books, sheet by sheet,wi...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： ONSIEUR BERGERET was seated at table taking his frugal evening meal. Riquet lay at his feet on a tapestry cushion. Riquet had a religious soul; he rendered divine honours to mankind. He regarded his master as very good and very great. But it was chie...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： As I left the Palais-Bourbon at five oclock that afternoon, it rejoiced my heart to breathe in the sunny air. The sky was bland, the river gleamed, the foliage was fresh and green. Everything seemed to whisper an invitation to idleness. Along the Pon...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： FANCHON went early one morning, like Little Red Riding-Hood, to see her grandmother, who lives right at the other end of the village. But Fanchon did not stop like little Red Riding-Hood, to gather nuts in the wood. She went straight on her way and s...
