类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Three o'clock on a warm June afternoon. The great heat has caused something like a purple haze to cloud over the deep blue of the sapphire sky. There is not one breath of wind to stir the leaves or cool the flushed faces of those whose duties call th...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： The short winter's day was drawing to its close, and twilight, the steel and silver twilight of a windless frost, falling in throbs of clear dusk over an ice-bound land. The sun, brilliant but cold as an electric lamp, had not in all the hours of its...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Penny Parker, leaning indolently against the edge of the kitchen table, watched Mrs. Weems stem strawberries into a bright green bowl....
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： There is much of life passed on the balcony in a country where the summer unrolls in six moon-lengths, and where the nights have to come with a double endowment of vastness and splendor to compensate for the tedious, sun-parched days....
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Two ladies of the train of the Princess Elizabeth were talking softly together in an upper room of Hunsdon House....
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： It began in a Woman's Club in London on a February afternoonan uncomfortable club, and a miserable afternoonwhen Mrs. Wilkins, who had come down from Hampstead to shop and had lunched at her club, took up The Times from the table in the smoking-room,...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： The mental image of the world is of individual and varying compass. It may be likened to one of those curious Chinese balls of quaintly carved ivory, containing other balls, one within another, the proportions ever dwindling with each successive incl...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： The next day turned out so warm, that the carriage was not brought for Daisy till late in the afternoon. Then it came, with her father and Dr. Sandford; and Daisy was lifted in Mr. Randolph's arms and carefully placed on the front seat of the carriag...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Lincoln loved laughter; he loved to laugh himself and he liked to hear others laugh. All who knew him, all who have written of him, from John Hay, years ago, to Harvey OHiggins in his recent work, tell how, in the darkest moments our country has ever...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： When the nineteenth century was still a puling infant scarcely able to stand alone, and not yet knowing what to make of the strange hurly-burly into which it found itself born, Abel Ringwood and Sarah his wife were respectively landlord and landlady...
