类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Four cavalry regiments in the British Army have borne the number Nineteen.The first was raised in Ireland, in 1759, during the Seven Years War, and was known as Droghedas Horse. In 1763, its number was changed to Eighteen, which number it bore till i...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： OLIVIA GALE leaned back in her chair at the end of the dining-room table, and looked first at the elderly gentleman on her right, and then at the elderly gentleman on her left....
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： I have finished work for the week. Ill see no one else were he as terse as Tacitus, cried Mr. Ferguson, the lawyer.It was six oclock on a Friday afternoon and a pleasant rustle of the plane trees in the square came through the open window of the offi...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： THE early story of Baltazar is not the easiest one to tell. It is episodic. It obeys not the Unities of Time, Place and Action. The only unity to be found in it is the oneness of character in that absurd and accomplished man. The fact of his being lu...
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简介： Bright and joyous was the aspect of nature on a spring morning in the beautiful county of Somersetshire. The budding green on the trees was yet so light, that, like a transparent veil, it showed the outlines of every twig; but on the lowlier hedges i...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： The dance was over and Mildred Thornton climbed disconsolately up the long stairs. From her thin shoulders floated a delicate white scarf and her dress was of white lace and tulle. Yet Mildred had no look of a conquering Princess, nor yet of Cinderel...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： This is going to be the craziest story I ever wrote. But anyway every word of it is trueexcept a few small words. Even the punctuation is true. But I have to admit the story is crazy. Its the craziest story ever written in this world or any other wor...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： I know quite well that there have been books without end dealing with our great Pacific Coast, and I feel that a writer who adds another ought to have some good excuse for such action. I flatter myself that I have sufficient warrant for this modest a...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： FROM my earliest recollections, and up to the ripe age of fifty-three, I had been an active and diligent worker in the world. This sounds absurd; but having almost no toys except such as I could manufacture, my first plays were but the outdoor work o...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： The general steamship agency on The Bund was a hive of bustling travelers, their faces alight with the eagerness with which they desired to be gone their many ways up and down the world. A stranger might have imagined that most of Yokohama's European...
