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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...
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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：The great Mogul Emperor was a chess player, and was generous enough to rejoice when he was beaten by one of his courtiers, which was the exact reverse of Philip II. of Spain, who, when a Spanish grand...
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简介：They were friends in a friendship closer than brotherhood. Nello was a little Ardennois,Patrasche was a big Fleming. They were both of the same age by length of years, yet one was still young, and the...
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简介：Early one summer morning in England, in the year 1893 in the reignwhich seemed in those days to have been going on for ever and to be likely to go on for evermoreof Queen Victoria, there was born a li...
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简介：Forster tells us that Dickens, in his later novels, from Bleak House onwards (1853), assiduously cultivated construction, this essential of his art. Some critics may think, that since so many of the b...
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简介：In this work I have endeavoured to portray a phase of life in a far-away land, a land concerning which we have only too little knowledge at the present time, though it is one of our Empire's greatest ...
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简介：Stephen K. Lepper, Pork-Packing Prince, from Chicago, U. S. A., by White Star Line, for Liverpool. Such was the announcement with which the Chicago Central Advertiser made beautiful its list of arriva...
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简介：Henry Seton Merriman published his first novel, Young Mistley, in 1888, when he was twenty-six years old. Messrs. Bentley's reader, in his critique on the book, spoke of its powerful situations and un...
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简介：Throughout the length and breadth of this London of ours there were few legal firms, no matter of how old standing, doing a better, larger ready-money business than that of Moss and Moss of Cursitor S...
