类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：455 作者： 未知
简介：A Paradoxical philosopher, carrying to the uttermost length that aphorism of Montesquieu's, 'Happy the people whose annals are tiresome,' has said; 'Happy the people whose annals are vacant.' In which...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：1069 作者： 未知
简介：Callers loaded with gifts, and tradesmen bending under packages, come and go in endless procession. The servants are at the end of their endurance. As for the family and the betrothed, they no longer ...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：1682 作者： 威尔基·柯林斯 Wilkie Collins
简介：My object is to explain the motive which has induced me to refuse the right hand of friendship to my cousin, John Herncastle. The reserve which I have hitherto maintained in this matter has been misin...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：664 作者： 威尔基·柯林斯 Wilkie Collins
简介：At the request of a person who has claims on me that I must not disown, I consent to look back through a long interval of years and to describe events which took place within the walls of an English p...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：477 作者： 未知
简介：In the autumn month of September, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, wherein these presents bear date, two idle apprentices, exhausted by the long, hot summer, and the long, hot work it had brought wit...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：899 作者： 未知
简介：FOR after this manner in the old time the holy women also who trusted in God adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands; even as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord; whose daug...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：630 作者： 未知
简介：FOR reasons of my own, I excused myself from accompanying my stepmother to a dinner-party given in our neighborhood. In my present humor, I preferred being aloneand, as a means of getting through my i...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：619 作者： 未知
简介：THE gentlemen of the jury retired to consider their verdict.Their foreman was a person doubly distinguished among his colleagues. He had the clearest head, and the readiest tongue. For once the right ...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：754 作者： 威尔基·柯林斯 Wilkie Collins
简介：Day of the month and year, November the thirtieth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five. London Time by the great clock of Saint Pauls, ten at night. All the lesser London churches strain their ...
