类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： She stood on the southeast corner of Broadway at Twenty-second Street, waiting for a northbound car with a vacant seat. She had been on her feet all day and was very tired, so tired that the prospect of being obliged to stand all the way uptown seeme...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： The sudden change in the thin sallow face, the lack of expression in the brilliant eyes, and the dropping of the jaw were sufficient to convince me that the strangers life had ebbed away....
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： When but a child of seven my uncle placed me in a private school in which one of the so-called redeemed sub-sailors was a teacher of the German language. As I look back now, in the light of my present knowledge, I better comprehend the docile humilit...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： It seems inexcusable to remind the public that one has written a book. Poppa says I ought not to feel that way about itthat he might just as well be shy about referring to the baking soda that he himself inventedbut I do, and it is with every apology...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： There are certain beings who bear the stamp of the divine seal and are preordained to receive the highest favours within the gift of glory; they are fated to pass through life like those brilliant meteors which are seen to flash across the heavens an...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： May a thunderbolt strike you! The imprecation suited the rough fellow who uttered it. He had pointed out of doors as he spoke, and scarcely lowered the strange tones of his voice, yet of all the rabble who surrounded him only two persons understood h...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： In proceeding to trace the development and characteristics of Puritanism in an English colony, I beg to remark that I write, not as an Englishman, but as a Canadian colonist by birth and life-long residence, and as an early and constant advocate of t...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： O God, I desire to approach Thy throne of Grace on the evening of this day, beseeching Thee to grant me Thy benediction and blessing. The shadows of night have once more gathered around me; may no shadow of sin or unbelief darken my soul, or interrup...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： One morning sitting with my mother in the drawing room and entreating her to comply with my wish to enter the Navy, she was so intent on listening to my importunities and her patchwork that she did not observe that the cat was running away with her f...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Many years ago, as a student in a foreign university, I remember attacking, with the complacency of youth, a German history of the English drama, in six volumes. I lost courage long before the author reached the age of Elizabeth, but I still recall t...
