类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： THE Dresden clock on the mantel struck twelve in soft, slow, golden notes. As the gentle echoes died away, Horace Abernethey, sitting huddled in a morris chair before the fire of logs, stirred feebly. Presently, he sat erect, moving clumsily, with th...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Have you heard, Captain Terrington? cried the girl gaily. There's to be a Durbar after all! So you were wrong. It's to be in the Palace too, that you were so set against, and Lewis and Mr. Langford are going with Sir Colvin, and just the littlest gua...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： So long as man does not bother about what he is or whence he came or whither he is going, the whole thing seems as simple as the verb to be; and you may say that the moment he does begin thinking about what he is (which is more than thinking that he...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： The trail journals of the first two government exploring expeditions commanded by Lieutenant John Charles Frmont, of the United States Engineers, and advised by Kit Carson, mountain-man, are to be found together published, spring of 1845, as reports...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： An immense gallery, five hundred feet long, occupied the upper floor of the main factory-building. Looking down the gallery, a perspective of iron girders spanned the roof, gaunt skeletons of architecture, uncompromising, inexorably utilitarian, infl...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Yet, be it noticed, if you are a stranger, you will not readily [Pg xi] get ghost and fairy legends, even in a western village. You must go adroitly to work, and make friends with the children, and the old men, with those who have not felt the pressu...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： The cat is the offspring of a cat and the dog of a dog, but butlers and ladys maids do not reproduce their kind. They have other duties.So their successors have to be sought among the prolific, and particularly among the prolific on great estates. Su...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： STAR! Ev-en Star! Full account o the fi-re! echoes shrilly on all sides from the throats of bare-legged, paper-laden urchins, who after the manner of their kind are actively engaged in supplying the passing public of Auckland, New Zealand, with the s...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： When men shall say, Peace, and all things are safe, then shall sudden destruction come upon them, as sorrow cometh upon a woman travailing with child, and they shall not escape....
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： DAMAGED GOODS was first presented in America at a Friday matinee on March 14th, 1913, in the Fulton Theater, New York, before members of the Sociological Fund. Immediately it was acclaimed by public press and pulpit as the greatest contribution ever...
