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简介：Amelia Maxwell sat by the front-chamber window of the great house overlooking the road, and her own story-an'-a-half farther toward the west. Every day she was alone under her own roof, save at the ti...
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简介：Katherine Boulby had reached her fiftieth year, and all these years had been spent in single blessedness. It is true that she had not realized the entirety of the perfect calm and peace that abides in...
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简介：ATHALIA HALL stopped to get her breath and look back over the road climbing steeply up from the covered bridge. It was a little after five, and the delicate air of dawn was full of wood and pasture sc...
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简介：A stiff breeze, now and then with a hard gust, swept rain across the Navy airfield. The place was gloomy and deserted, except for one Privateer standing behind the air station, all other planes having...
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简介：The Annals and the History of Tacitus are like two houses in ruins: dismantled of their original proportions they perpetuate the splendour of Roman historiography, as the crumbling remnants of the Col...
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简介：Florida was originally settled by Spaniards, in 1558. They were the first people to engage in the African Slave trade, and sought to supply other nations with servants from the coast of Guinea. The Co...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：484 作者： 未知
简介：It was a wild and stormy October night. The big moon-faced clock in the entrance-hall, in its slow and solemn fashion, as of a horologe that felt the burden of its years, had just announced the hour o...
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简介：This has taken everyone by surprise. It is possible, that, with the exception of their Staff, it has taken the Volunteers themselves by surprise; but, to-day, our peaceful city is no longer peaceful; ...
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简介：Lights glowed brightly in the large, bare tower room which was the headquarters of the Gerka, secret police organization of Rubania. It was midnight and a meeting of the supreme council of the Gerka a...
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简介：The Western States and Provinces of North America thrive on our thousand-pounders and remittance-men. Some years ago in one small prairie town of Iowa there were 105 young Britons on the books of the ...
