类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： An express train was dashing along a line of rails in the heart of England. On one of the first-class carriages there had been a board, bearing the intimation 'For Ladies Only,' but the guard took it off when the train first started. It had come many...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： All afternoon the train had been following the picturesque shore of the Indian River, in Florida. The snow and ice of the north had long since disappeared. Summer heat increased as the train sped southward. Most of the seats in the car were filled wi...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： The two old friends, Mr. John DeWitt and Mrs. Halliday, were reclining side by side in their steamer-chairs, lulled into a quiescent mood by the gentle, scarcely perceptible, motion of the vessel. It was an exertion to speak, and Mrs. Halliday replie...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： But yesterday, a whole planet had shouted: Hail Hradzka! Hail the Leader! Today, they were screaming: Death to Hradzka! Kill the tyrant!...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： NO June day ever opened with a fairer promise. Not a single cloud flecked the sky, and the sun coursed onward through the azure sea until past meridian, without throwing to the earth a single shadow. Then, low in the west, appeared something obscure...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： The sweet bells of Helstonleigh Cathedral were ringing out in the summers afternoon. Groups of people lined the streets, in greater number than the ordinary business of the day would have brought forth; some pacing with idle steps, some halting to ta...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： There were three women in the dressing-room. Little Miss Macy, who played a subaltern, was pulling off her uniform; and the Duchess, divested of velvet, stood brushing the powder out of her hair. The third woman was doing nothing. In a chair by the t...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Mr. Gladstone has not disappointed the confidence of those who have believed of him that when great occasions presented themselves, of interest to the Church, he would not be found wanting. A statesman has a right to reserve himself and bide his time...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： It was an unusual sight, the long vista of the beautiful street in deep shadow, peaceful and calm as if it knew no trampling footsteps nor jostling vehicles. It 10was just waking up from its brief hour of repose. Here and there a market cart, laden w...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： It had rained that April more continuously than capriciously, but this morning April showed at last her fairer face. The sunshine held as yet no sense of heat, only the bracingness of a glad salt wave. Across the spacious blue of the Essex sky clouds...
