The Noble Rogue
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简介：M. Legros, tailor-in-chief to His Majesty Louis XIV and to the Court of Paris and Versailles, bowed himself out of the room; with back bent nearly double, and knees trembling in the effort, he receded...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：535 作者： 未知
简介：M. Legros, tailor-in-chief to His Majesty Louis XIV and to the Court of Paris and Versailles, bowed himself out of the room; with back bent nearly double, and knees trembling in the effort, he receded...
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简介：Many people did not like Jessop. He had rather a brutal manner sometimes of telling brutal thingsthe truth, he called it. They don't like it, he once said to me in a rare moment of confidence. But why...
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简介：The first thing that impresses me as I begin this short book on London is the large number of subjects of which I will say nothing. There are many reasons for this. One is that a title such as A Londo...
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简介：The grey twilight gives to the long, pale stretches of sand the sense of something strangely unreal. As far as the eye can reach, it curves out into the mist, the last vanishing garments, as it were, ...
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简介：I have taken the liberty of dedicating this little work to you. It treats of a subject on which I have made many experiments and collected many observations in Belgium and in Holland. I have carefully...
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简介：There is not in all London a quieter spot, or one, apparently, more withdrawn from the heat and bustle of life than Newsome Terrace. It is a cul-de-sac, for at the upper end the roadway between its tw...
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简介：A limitless expanse of opal sea, calm and unruffled, reflecting the crimson and gold of the sky, as the sun went down behind pine woods and moors.A clear-cut line of cliffs, rising sheer from the stre...
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简介：A PREFACE is the place where an author usually apologizes to the public for what he is about to inflict. Such being the case, I hasten to state that I am only jointly responsible for this aggregation ...
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简介：Now that most of our men in the prime of life have been in the army we seem to be in for a goodly literature of disappointment. All the ungifted young people came back from the war to tell us that the...
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简介：As indicated on the title-page, The Boy Travellers on the Congo is condensed from that remarkable narrative, Through the Dark Continent, by one of the most famous explorers that the century has produc...