The Cask
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:581 作者: 未知
简介:Mr. Avery, managing director of the Insular and Continental Steam Navigation Company, had just arrived at his office. He glanced at his inward letters, ran his eye over his list of engagements for the...
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:581 作者: 未知
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:581 作者: 未知
简介:A writer of many books once said to me that he regretted every preface he had written. Seeing that I have the highest respect for his talents, I am constrained to take to heart the moral, which (parti...
类别:儿童英文小说 点击次数:581 作者: 未知
简介:Children are like jam: all very well in the proper place, but you cant stand them all over the shopeh, what?...
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:581 作者: 未知
简介:In a poor part of London, but not in the very poorest parttwo children sat on a certain autumn evening, side by side on a doorstep. The eldest might have been ten, the youngest eight. The eldest was a...
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:580 作者: 未知
简介:IT was a very warm afternoon, and Girlie was sitting by the play-room window watching the gold fish idly swimming about in her little aquarium. She was feeling very sigh as she called it, that is, not...
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:580 作者: 未知
简介:The announcement was made by Nick Carters valet, Joseph, who threw open the door of his masters study with a gesture as nearly approaching a flourish as any in which he ever permitted himself to indul...
类别:儿童英文小说 点击次数:580 作者: Joseph A. Altsheler
简介:The first youth rode to the crest of the hill, and, still sitting on his horse, examined the country in the south with minute care through a pair of powerful glasses. The other two dismounted and wait...
类别:儿童英文小说 点击次数:579 作者: 未知
简介:Breaking Away is the second of the series of stories published in Our Boys and Girls, and the author had no reason to complain of the reception accorded to it by his young friends, as it appeared in t...
类别:儿童英文小说 点击次数:579 作者: Joseph A. Altsheler
简介:The horseman rode slowly toward the west, stopping once or twice to examine the wide circle of the horizon with eyes that were trained to note every aspect of the wilderness. On his right the plains m...