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简介：In following the hero of this story through the last Afghan war, you will be improving your acquaintance with a country which is of supreme importance to the British Empire and, at the same time, be a...
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简介：The polite porter who had made the inquiry, and the satirical station-master who had commented on the reply, remained gazing for a minute or two at the stranger who had just arrived at the Amherst sta...
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简介：Though Sir Walter Besant called War correspondents the scene painters of history, it may be questioned whether any pen or brush, trained on the land, sea and air battles of the present War, can depict...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：656 作者： 未知
简介：Snythergens mother was poorso poor that she did not feel able to support her baby boy. So she put him in a basketit had to be a large oneand left it on the doorstep of a little old couple who had long...
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简介：A monuments dimensions should be determined by the importance to civilization of the events commemorated. We are not here trying to carve an epic, portray a moonlight scene, or write a sonnet; neither...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：655 作者： 未知
简介：It was the happy fortune of Robert Louis Stevenson to have created beyond any man of his craft in our day a body of readers inspired with the feelings that we for the most part place at the service on...
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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...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：654 作者： 未知
简介：Two bells tinkles within the masters cabin, and the quartermaster on the bridge repeats the announcement of nine oclock with two strokes upon the bronze bell near his station at the wheel. It is saili...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：654 作者： 未知
简介：It is near the end of the Lent term at Cambridge, a raw, damp day. The grey clouds are drifting thick and low, over the flat fen country, and a fine mist is falling steadily. But for once no one seems...
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简介：This is a book of historic importance, which belongs on the shelves of a variety of types of people, though not for the usual reasons why a fictional work is a must. No one will ever compare Ralph 124...
