Ovington's Bank
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简介：It was market day at Aldersbury, the old county town of Aldshire, and the busiest hour of the day. The clock of St. Juliana's was on the point of striking three, and the streets below it were thronged...
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简介：It was market day at Aldersbury, the old county town of Aldshire, and the busiest hour of the day. The clock of St. Juliana's was on the point of striking three, and the streets below it were thronged...
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简介：There came through the night loud crashing and rumbling sounds, and a confusion of mens voices from the steep road leading down from Fort Ridgely to the boat-landing on the Minnesota River....
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简介：It has become the fashion among novelists to introduce their hero in knee pants, their heroine in pinafore and pigtails. Time was when we were rushed up to a stalwart young man of twenty-four, who was...
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简介：The morning sun was growing stronger as it rose higher. Collie, returning from driving his master's cow to the cool shade of the back pasture, felt its rays penetrate his shaggy coat. His tongue hung ...
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简介：One of the commonly misunderstood phrases in the language is the Spanish Main. To the ordinary individual it suggests the Caribbean Sea. Although Shakespeare in Othello, makes one of the gentlemen of ...
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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：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：I originally called this book What is Wrong, and it wouldhave satisfied your sardonic temper to note the number of socialmisunderstandings that arose from the use of the title....