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简介：On the first cloudy day in November, Tom Blacker, the shining light of Ostreich and Company, Public Relations Counsellors, placed a call to a shirtsleeved man on the rooftop of the Cannon Building in ...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：660 作者： 未知
简介：The success and the distinction had come early in life, and the love had come late. In the nature of things it could not have come earlier. It came in time to crown the rest of the good gifts that Pro...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：660 作者： 未知
简介：Now that most of our men in the prime of life have been in the army we seem to be in for a goodly literature of disappointment. All the ungifted young people came back from the war to tell us that the...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：660 作者： 未知
简介：Botanical Science is made up of three distinct branches of knowledge, Classification founded on Morphology, Phytotomy, and Vegetable Physiology. All these strive towards a common end, a perfect unders...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：659 作者： 未知
简介：All things considered, I rate October 10th, 1920, as the most momentous day of my life. Why it should be so styled is not at once apparent. My career has not been unromantic; during many years I have ...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：659 作者： 未知
简介：The obscure streets of life do not offer the conveniences of the central thoroughfares: no electric light, no gas, not even a kerosene lamp-bracket. There are no pavements: the traveller has to fumble...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：659 作者： 未知
简介：But yesterday, a whole planet had shouted: Hail Hradzka! Hail the Leader! Today, they were screaming: Death to Hradzka! Kill the tyrant!...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：659 作者： 未知
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：658 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：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...
