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....
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简介： Two ladies of the train of the Princess Elizabeth were talking softly together in an upper room of Hunsdon House....
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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,...
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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...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Laura Pavely did not raise her voice, but there was trembling pain, as well as an almost incredulous surprise, in the way she uttered the five words which may mean so muchor so little....
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Professor Barstow, with a perplexed scowl ruffling the barbette of gray hairs above his keen eyes, shook his head and turning from the young man whose long legs extended over the end of the lean sofa upon which he sprawled in one corner of the labora...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： On the 20th of December, 1852, Lord Dalhousie issued a proclamation annexing the province of Pegu to the British Dominions. The Governor-General in Council, he said, having exacted the reparation he deems sufficient, desires no further conquest in Bu...
