类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： The long Pullman train, an hour late and greatly begrudging the time for a special stop, came sliding into the tiny station of Rudolm and deposited a solitary passenger upon the platform. The porter set Hugh Arnolds suitcase on the ground and accepte...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： The editor of The Daily Chat wondered a little vaguely why he had come down to the office at all. Here was the thermometer down to 11 with every prospect of touching zero before daybreak, and you can't fill a morning paper with weather reports. Besid...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： It is a perplexing thing when the making of history is often terrible, sometimes tragic, but hardly ever tedious, that the reading of history should be considered uniformly grey. In compiling the present book I shrank from the word HistoryI altered i...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： The settlers task of conquering the wilderness might have been simpler had they not spent so much energy in conquering one another; for side by side with the advance of the frontier goes a process of territorial rivalry of which the end is not yet. A...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： I arrived in Santacruz in the early evening, and as I stepped out of the carriage with the children the majordomo came rushing out from under the hotel portales and said: Meesus Trench, is it? Your suite awaits, madam. The Lieutenant Trench from the...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Since we have learned to study the development of human life as we study the evolution of species throughout the animal kingdom, some peculiar phenomena which have puzzled the philosopher and moralist for so long, begin to show themselves in a new li...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： It was an hour after midnight when the Earthstopper of the Penwith Hunt left his cottage on the outskirts of Madron. He carried a lantern and a rough terrier followed at his heels. His track led, by lanes in the heather, over a cairn to the furze-cla...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： In commencing the story of the brave deeds performed during the dark days of the great civil war in America by the gallant band known as Whites Battalion, it will be proper to give a short sketch of the man who, as chief of the Comanches, gave to the...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Two bells tinkles within the masters cabin, and the quartermaster on the bridge repeats the announcement of nine oclock with two strokes upon the bronze bell near his station at the wheel. It is sailing-time. The townspeople have turned out en masse...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Ensign Jack Steel sat on the edge of a life raft whittling a stick. A strange place to whittle, one might say, on the deck of a great U. S. aircraft carrier in mid-Pacific. But Jack loved to whittle....
