类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Thessaly! Ten minutes for refreshments! called out the brisk young colored porter, advancing up the aisle of the drawing-room car, whisk-broom in hand. Change cahs foh Thanksgiving turkey and cranberry sauce, he added, upon humorous after-thought, sm...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Ef ther aint a flare-up in this haouse fore long, I miss my guess, said Alvira, as she kneaded the pie-crust, and pulled it out between her floury fingers to measure its consistency. Ole Sabrinys got her back up this time to stay....
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： At noon on a day late in September the express train from Paris rested, panting and impatient, on its brief halt in the station at Rouen. The platform was covered with groups of passengers, pushing their way into or out of the throng about the victua...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： In June of 1888, an army of workmen were toiling in the Champ de Mars upon the foundations of a noble Worlds Exhibition, planned to celebrate the centenary of the death by violence of the Divine Right of Kings. Four thousand miles westward, in the ci...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： It may easily be that, during the many years which have come and gone since the eventful time of my childhood, Memory has played tricks upon me to the prejudice of Truth. I am indeed admonished of this by study of my son, for whose children in turn t...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： His triumph was so sweeping and comprehensive as to be somewhat shapeless to the view. He had a sense of fascinated pain when he tried to define to himself what its limits would probably be. Vistas of unchecked, expanding conquest stretched away in e...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： I suppose about the name there is no doubt. For sixty years we have followed that gifted gadabout and gossip, Heine, and called it Philistia. And yet, when one thinks of it, there may have been a mistake after all. Artemus Ward used to say that he ha...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： No such throng had ever before been seen in the building during all its eight years of existence. People were wedged together most uncomfortably upon the seats; they stood packed in the aisles and overflowed the galleries; at the back, in the shadows...
