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简介：The two old friends, Mr. John DeWitt and Mrs. Halliday, were reclining side by side in their steamer-chairs, lulled into a quiescent mood by the gentle, scarcely perceptible, motion of the vessel. It ...
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简介：But yesterday, a whole planet had shouted: Hail Hradzka! Hail the Leader! Today, they were screaming: Death to Hradzka! Kill the tyrant!...
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简介：NO June day ever opened with a fairer promise. Not a single cloud flecked the sky, and the sun coursed onward through the azure sea until past meridian, without throwing to the earth a single shadow. ...
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简介：The sweet bells of Helstonleigh Cathedral were ringing out in the summers afternoon. Groups of people lined the streets, in greater number than the ordinary business of the day would have brought fort...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：684 作者： 未知
简介：There were three women in the dressing-room. Little Miss Macy, who played a subaltern, was pulling off her uniform; and the Duchess, divested of velvet, stood brushing the powder out of her hair. The ...
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简介：Mr. Gladstone has not disappointed the confidence of those who have believed of him that when great occasions presented themselves, of interest to the Church, he would not be found wanting. A statesma...
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简介：It was an unusual sight, the long vista of the beautiful street in deep shadow, peaceful and calm as if it knew no trampling footsteps nor jostling vehicles. It 10was just waking up from its brief hou...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：668 作者： 未知
简介：It had rained that April more continuously than capriciously, but this morning April showed at last her fairer face. The sunshine held as yet no sense of heat, only the bracingness of a glad salt wave...
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简介：The person who invented the Irish question may or may not deserve well of his species. In a sense, of course, there has been an Irish question since the beginning of history. But it is only within the...
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简介：What if he is a great deal older than I am! that doesn't give him any right to rumple my hair, does it? I'm willing to respect old age, of course, but I want my hair respected too....
