类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Petulantly Nancy Howard cast aside her letter and buried her chin in her cupped palms.Oh, the woes of having a learned father! she sighed. Here is Joes letter, telling me how everything is starting up at home; and here am I, Nancy Howard, buried in t...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Joy Nelson came into the room that she was sharing with two other girls, at half-past four in the morning. She was tired. She had been dancing steadily all night; her new silver slippers were killing her; and she was not accustomed to being up late....
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简介： Hail, sweet asylum of my infancy! Content and innocence reside beneath your humble roof, and charity unboastful of the good it renders. Hail, ye venerable trees! my happiest hours of childish gayety were passed beneath your shelterthen, careless as t...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Is Saul also among the prophets? With my mental ear I hear thus exclaim those in whose view the teller of tales stands immeasurably higher than the rabbi, minister, preacher, scholar, or whatever else may be called he whose vocation it is to dissemin...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： The bark Nebuchadnezar came staggering into Chelsea harbor in a very demoralized condition. Her main and mizzen masts were both gone, the bulwarks were smashed in, the poop swept away, and she leaked so badly that all the short-handed crew were nearl...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： The Boys Foot-race at the great games of Olympia, celebrated now for the one hundred and eleventh time since the epoch of Cor?bus, has just been run, and the victor is about to receive his crown of wild olive. The herald proclaims with a loud voice,...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： This monograph on the intellectual development of the Dominion was delivered in substance as the presidential address to the Royal Society of Canada at its May meeting of 1893, in Ottawa. Since then the author has given the whole subject a careful re...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： The heavens were a stainless blue, and the Moon shone out of them arrayed in silvery garments. One by one the skys matchless jewels, the stars, peeped out, studding that great ceiling with flashing diamond-points, until the whole dome was a glitterin...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Prudence was the oldest, and very wise. (That was why she was Prudence, but more often the Princess said, Miss Phyllis-y.) She had brown eyes, clear and steady, and short hair. There was a perky little lock on one side of the middle of her forehead t...
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简介： It has only recently been recognized as a fact, says Prof. A. F. Bandelier, that on the whole American continent, the mode of life of the primitive inhabitants was formed on one sociological principle, and consequently the culture of these peoples ha...
