Ailsa Paige
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:657 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:657 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...
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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...
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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:While speaking of the English school, I must not omit to notice a truly original genius, who, though not a painter, was an artist of the highest order in his wayThomas Bewick, the admirable designer a...
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简介:This book was written through the inspirational spirit of the well-known writer, Samuel L. ClemensMark Twain. As I have never before written a book, the reader will see that I have had help from an un...
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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:Mananaan Mac Lir who rules the ocean took the little Sun-God, Lugh, in his arms and held him up so that he could see the whole of Ireland with the waves whispering about it everywhere....
类别:儿童英文小说 点击次数:656 作者: 未知
简介:The Yacht Club is the second volume of the Yacht Club Series, to which it gives a name; and like its predecessor, is an independent story. The hero has not before appeared, though some of the characte...
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简介:A Fine ship was buffeting the waves, like a strong swimmer in his sport. The clouds dashed wildly to and fro, but left many wide spaces of blue to be dotted with stars. The sea was in high spirits, th...
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简介:A voyage across the Atlantic in a large ocean steamer is now as familiar and as little troublesome as the journey from London to Paris. It rarely offers any incident worth recounting, and yet, especia...