类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
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...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
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...
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...
