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简介：DURING the course of my apprenticeship with Messrs. Negri and Gunter, in Berkeley Square, many housekeepers to noblemen and gentlemen, on special occasions, were frequently present, in order to observ...
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简介：I have tried to write for you a story of newspaper life and tell how a boy, who started in the lowest position,that of a copy carrier,rose to become a reporter. The newspaper covers a wide field, and ...
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简介：Little Bob Taylor was mad, discouraged, and thoroughly miserable. Things had gone wrongas things have the perverse habit of doing with mischievous, fun-loving boys of tenand he was disgruntled, disgus...
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简介：IT WAS the middle of a bright tropical afternoon that we made good our escape from the bay. The vessel we sought lay with her main-topsail aback about a league from the land, and was the only object t...
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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...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：726 作者： Grant Allen
简介：A distinguished Positivist friend of mine, who is in most matters a practical man of the world, astonished me greatly the other day at Venice, by the grave remark that Italian was destined to be the l...
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简介：I have been asked to open the front door of this book. But I must not keep you standing too long on the threshold. The picture-gallery, the banqueting hall and the throne-room are inside. All the fasc...
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简介：It was late evening when John Penhale left the Helston lawyers office. A fine drizzle was blowing down Coinage Hall Street; thin beams of light pierced the chinks of house shutters and curtains, barre...
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简介：When I began this Translation, more than two years ago, I had no intention of publishing it; but as the work progressed, it occurred to me that Arrian is an Author deserving of more attention from the...
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简介：AMELIA came running eagerly down the wide stairs, and though she was smiling with the joy of Vernons coming, she stopped on the bottom step long enough to shake out the skirt of the new spring gown sh...
