类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：514 作者： 未知
简介：The speaker was Mr. Brigham. As he uttered these words he placed his hat and gloves on the table, and looked down at his son Lester, who had just entered the library in obedience to the summons he had...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：514 作者： 未知
简介：There is no country in the world where the study of character is more indulged in than in the United States of America. During my many visits there I could not help remarking how even the hardest head...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：514 作者： 未知
简介：A quick, sharp report rent the air. Followed several seconds of deathlike silence. Then the lesser sound of a twig falling in the still forest. Again silence. A silence, tense, portentous. Then the so...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：513 作者： 未知
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...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：513 作者： 未知
简介：Charlie Jingle walked into the long room with the long table and long Commissioners' faces in it. He went to a chair at the head of the table, and sat down, a small man in loose, seedy clothing lookin...
类别：儿童英文小说 点击次数：513 作者： 未知
简介：The September sun was glinting cheerfully into a pretty bedroom furnished with blue. It danced on the glossy hair and bright eyes of two girls, who sat together hemming ruffles for a white muslin dres...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：512 作者： 未知
简介：I have the pleasure of laying before the New York Historical Society a brief account of the progress which has been made during the past year towards extending our knowledge of the globe, particularly...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：512 作者： 未知
简介：In the following pages I have endeavoured to give a vivid picture of the wonderful events of the ten years, which at their commencement saw Madras in the hands of the French--Calcutta at the mercy of ...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：512 作者： 未知
简介：I can easily recall the little room in which I sat, poring over my next days lessons. It was in one end of the attic of our modest cottage, and the only room done off upstairs. The sloping side walls,...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：512 作者： 未知
简介：It does not need that Herbert Spencer should cross the ocean to tell us that we are an overworked nation; that our hair turns gray ten years earlier than the Englishman's; or, that we have had somewha...
