类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：424 作者： 未知
简介：While calmly perusing the annals of duelling, we cannot but be amazed when we behold, in the present day of pretended intellectual perfection, this practice adopted in a society which prides itself up...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：387 作者： 未知
简介：The mellow autumn months darkened and died slowly into winter. The wild winds that are born in the bitter north blew in stronger and fiercer gusts, and the majestic monotone of the sea grew louder and...
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简介：Of the many ways, worthy or vile, honourable or ignoble, whereby men, as my excellent friend the Prince de Talmont has shown in his history, may rise to court favour, few, I think, are more curious th...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：738 作者： 未知
简介：The man who had addressed the two stalwart, sunburned young fellows wearing the natty uniform of Uncle Sams sea-fighters flourished his silver-headed cane as if in token of having attained an object....
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：543 作者： John Buchan
简介：It was with a light heart and a pleasing consciousness of holiday that I set out from the inn at Allermuir to tramp my fifteen miles into the unknown. I walked slowly, for I carried my equipment on my...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：398 作者： 未知
简介：The Casentino is the name given to the upper valley of the Arno, where the river, rising in numerous streams on the slopes of the Falterona, flows southwards for about forty miles before it swings rou...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：395 作者： 未知
简介：Boots! he roared, for the second time. His wife, opening the kitchen door, looked in, and surveyed him.If I have to order you, said Mr. Baynes, speaking with great distinctness, to come and take off m...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：1219 作者： 未知
简介：Arcadians, metaphysicians, and all adorers of the past are cursing every day and every hour the modern mania of comparing human things to living beings and call for anathemas against this absurd and s...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：531 作者： 未知
简介：The windows rattled ominously as the first vibration from the cannon shook the school.It was Tuesday, the Fourth of August, 1914.The master laid down his book and rose. His shoulder crooked forward th...
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简介：NICOLAS, a scion of an illustrious family of Vervignole, showed marks of sanctity from his earliest childhood, and at the age of fourteen vowed to consecrate himself to the Lord. Having embraced the e...
