Ailsa Paige
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简介：The butler made an instinctive movement to detain him, but he flung him aside and entered the drawing-room, the servant recovering his equilibrium and following on a run. Light from great crystal chan...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：659 作者： 未知
简介：The butler made an instinctive movement to detain him, but he flung him aside and entered the drawing-room, the servant recovering his equilibrium and following on a run. Light from great crystal chan...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：659 作者： 未知
简介：Jonah Wood was bitterly disappointed in his son. During five and twenty years he had looked in vain for the development of those qualities in George, which alone, in his opinion, could insure success....
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简介：I ENDEAVOURED, in a former book on Egypt, to give my first impressions while the glamour of the East had not been dimmed by familiarity; and the kind reception of that, my first literary attempt, has ...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：659 作者： 未知
简介：The Martianne is heard occasionally these days as a stirring concert or band selection. But there was a time when its playing was punishable by deathand its defiant strains challenged the harried poli...
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简介：On a cloudy December morning a gentleman, two ladies, and a boy stepped down from the express train at a station just above the Highlands on the Hudson. A double sleigh, overflowing with luxurious rob...
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简介：High up among the heather-clad hills which form the broad dividing barrier between England and Scotland, the little river Esk brawls and bickers over its stony bed through a wild land of barren braesi...
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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：It is now thirty years since the Baptist Church Directory, prepared by the writer, was first published. That work was designed to be somewhat of a consensus of the opinions of those best able to judge...
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简介：This book, that exudes sincerity, just as a pine tree drops its rosin, serves a double purpose. It reveals a curious personality that might have stepped straight from the pages of Purchas or of Hakluy...
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简介：Had any of the boys in the lower forms of Eton in the year 1808, been asked who were the most popular boys of their own age, they would have been almost sure to have answered, without the slightest he...