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简介：Braxfield, who had been butler to Sir Anthony Markenmore, Baronet, of Markenmore Court, for thirty years, was a man of method. All his life he had cultivated the habit of doing certain things at certa...
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简介：I have finished work for the week. Ill see no one else were he as terse as Tacitus, cried Mr. Ferguson, the lawyer.It was six oclock on a Friday afternoon and a pleasant rustle of the plane trees in t...
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简介：The Russian-American Telegraph Company, otherwise known as the Western union Extension, was organised at New York in the summer of 1864. The idea of a line from America to Europe, by way of Berin...
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简介：Hotel de Louvre, January 6th, 1858.On Tuesday morning, our dozen trunks and half-dozen carpet-bags being already packed and labelled, we began to prepare for our journey two or three hours before ligh...
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简介：Montague gazed about him, and found himself trembling just a little with anticipation. It was not the magnificence of the place. The quiet uptown hotel would have seemed magnificent to him, fresh as h...
类别：儿童英文小说 点击次数：611 作者： 未知
简介：It was an intensely hot July daynot a cloud appeared in the high blue vault of the sky; the trees, the flowers, the grasses, were all motionless, for not even the gentlest zephyr of a breeze was abroa...
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简介：A naval officer, trig in his white twill, strode along the Escolta, Manila's leading thoroughfare. There was something in his stride that suggested anger; and the settled grimness of his lips, visible...
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简介：I was one of a family of nine, of which four were sons. My eldest brother was destined for the Church; the second had entered a mercantile house in Liverpool; and I, who was third on the list, it was ...
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简介：The name is given to the south of England as distinguished from the Midlands, North England, and West England by the Severn. The poet is thinking particularly of Sussex and of the South Downs. In usin...
