Matchmaker
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简介:Jasso grinned, a flashing grin in a dark face. He sank into a chair, pulled out a cigarette pack and offered one to Tern. The older man shook his head, fishing in his pocket for an old-fashioned pipe....
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:684 作者: 未知
简介:Jasso grinned, a flashing grin in a dark face. He sank into a chair, pulled out a cigarette pack and offered one to Tern. The older man shook his head, fishing in his pocket for an old-fashioned pipe....
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简介:One summer afternoon a tall, good-looking stripling stopped in the midst of the town of New York, and asked his way to the governors house. He attracted not a little attention, and he created as much ...
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简介:It was with feelings of doubt that were not very far from dismay that Beatrice Deems watched her new acquaintance, Dan OLeary, saddle her recently acquired horse. She had ridden before, of course, in ...
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简介:My father, Andrei Petrovitch Grineff, after having served in his youth under Count Mnich,[1] quitted the service, in the year 17, with the rank of senior major. He settled down upon his estate in the ...
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简介:For a brief instant following her spoken pledge, an eloquent silence reigned over the circle of picturesque figures seated about the brightly-blazing camp fire. Then a storm of acclamation rent the st...
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简介:It was our old friend Oscar Preston who said this. He was standing on the platform in front of the station at Julesburg, gazing after the stage-coach in which Leon Parker, the disgusted and repentant ...
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简介:How light it is still! said Don Vittorio Lante, after a long silence....
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简介:In the autumn month of September, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, wherein these presents bear date, two idle apprentices, exhausted by the long, hot summer, and the long, hot work it had brought wit...
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简介:THE day had been long and sultry. It was the season of little heat, when an all-encompassing humidity seemed suspended over the land. Sky and earth were of one monotonous color, a dim blue, which fade...
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简介:The missionaries came out of the planetary system of a star they didn't call Antares. They called it, naturally enough, The Sunjust as home was Earth, Terra, or simply The World. And naturally enough,...