类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： There seemed to be some unusual commotion, a suppressed excitement, about the new and stately American Legation at Paris on the morning of the 3d of February in the year of grace (but not for Franceher days and years of grace were over!) 1789. The ha...
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简介： It was a chilling experience, that first glimpse of New Zealand! Hour after hour the great ship held on her way up the Cook Straits amidst scenery that made me shudder and that scowled me out of countenance. Rugged, massive, inhospitable, and bare, h...
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简介： Now, Tom dear, don't you do another single thing for me; I'm sure I shall be all right, and Cousin Anna will meet me at the train in Boston and then everything will be smooth sailing. You'll miss your train if you wait another moment and blame me for...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： I trust I need not offer this audience, gathered in the noble hall of this historic Innof old Purpulei, Britain's ornamentany apology for challenging its attention in this and two succeeding addresses to the genesis, formulation, and the fundamental...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： One beautiful evening, Yoritomo-Tashi was strolling in the gardens of his master, Lang-Ho, listening to the wise counsels which he knew so well how to give in all attractiveness of allegory, when, suddenly, he paused to describe a part of the land wh...
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简介： Though there is no period at which the ancients do not seem to have believed in a future life, continual confusion prevails when they come to picture the existence led by man in the other world, as we see from the sixth book of the ?neid. Combined wi...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： I desire to express grateful thanks to my researchers, Mr. James Nicholson of Kirkcudbright, who examined on my behalf all the local records bearing upon the period and upon the persons treated of in this book; and to the Reverend John Anderson of th...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： The kettle sat on the hob, and Mona sat on the floor, both as idle as idle could be....
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： In this work I have endeavoured to portray a phase of life in a far-away land, a land concerning which we have only too little knowledge at the present time, though it is one of our Empire's greatest colonies. I am aware that to make a book composed...
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简介： EVERY man knows there are evils in the world which need setting right. Every man has pretty definite ideas as to what these evils are. But to most men one in par-tic-u-lar stands out vividly. To some, in fact, this stands out with such startling vivi...
