类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Clara Heyward was dressed in deep mourning, and it was evident that the emblems of bereavement were not worn merely in compliance with a social custom. Her face was pallid from grief, and her dark beautiful eyes were dim from much weeping. She sat in...
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简介： Merry England!--Oh, merry England! What a difference has there always been between thee and every other land! What a cheerfulness there seems to hang about thy very name! What yeoman-like hilarity is there in all the thoughts of the past! What a spir...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： He mustnt have so much corn, Joseph, said Mr Tiddson, parish doctor of Croppley Magna, addressing a grinning boy of sixteen, who, with his smock-frock rolled up and twisted round his waist, was holding the bridle of a very thin, dejected-looking pony...
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简介： Barney Chard, thirty-sevenfinancier, entrepreneur, occasional blackmailer, occasional con man, and very competent in all these activitiesstood on a rickety wooden lake dock, squinting against the late afternoon sun, and waiting for his current busine...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： The first of the London Institutions of the Salvation Army which I visited was that known as the Middlesex Street Shelter and Working Men's Home, which is at present under the supervision of Commissioner Sturgess. This building consists of six floors...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： I begin this record with the columnar, self-reliant capital letter to signify that there is no disguise in its egoisms. If it were a chapter of autobiography, this is what the reader would look for as a matter of course. Let him consider it as being...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： There was a drabble of dead leaves on the sidewalk which was of wood, and on the roadway which was of macadam and stiff mud. The wind blew sharply, for it was a December day and only six in the morning....
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： These were the words of Mr. Hume, an infidel, spoken in the village store. It was Monday evening. By some strange freak, or led by a divine impulse, he had determined, the previous Sunday afternoon, to go to church and hear what the minister had to s...
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简介： Lena Streatham gave me this diary. I cant think what possessed her, for she has been simply hateful to me sometimes this last term. Perhaps it was remorse, because its awfully handsome, with just the sort of back I likesoft Russia leather, with my in...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： My grandmother sat in her own particular easy-chair by the open window of her back parlor. This was a pleasant place in which to sit in the afternoon, for the sun was then on the other side of the house, and she could look not only over the smooth gr...
