类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：573 作者： 未知
简介：It is possible that our reader, whose recollections may perhaps go back as far as the Restoration, will be surprised at the size of the frame required for the picture we are about to bring before him,...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：572 作者： 未知
简介：Mr. Joseph P. Mangles, at his ease in a deck-chair on the broad Atlantic, was smoking a most excellent cigar. Mr. Mangles was a tall, thin man, who carried his head in the manner curtly known at a gir...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：572 作者： 未知
简介：IT is just sixteen years since misfortune brought about our emancipation. A disastrous business venture made it necessary to curtail expenses. Rent being an especially heavy item, the hunt for a cheap...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：572 作者： 未知
简介：Richards looked carefully over the table with the eye of the well-trained manservant. He retouched a bowl of lilac that offended against his slavish idea of symmetry and then put a screen across the d...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：572 作者： 未知
简介：The student of American sociology will find the year 1894 marked by a pronounced awakening of the public conscience to a system of anarchy and outlawry which had grown during a series of ten years to ...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：572 作者： 未知
简介：After leaving Vienna, and long before you come to Budapest, the Danube enters a region of singular loneliness and desolation, where its waters spread away on all sides regardless of a main channel, an...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：571 作者： 未知
简介：Of course, Benny Badger had the best of reasons for living on the high, dry plains. There he had for neighbors plenty of ground squirrels and prairie dogs. And it is likely that he enjoyed their compa...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：571 作者： 未知
简介：IN none of the cases of investigation by Martin Hewitt which I have as yet recorded had I any direct and substantial personal interest. In the case I am about to set forth, however, I had some such in...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：571 作者： 未知
简介：This time only a few words are needed, for the story speaks for itself. My object has been rather to tell you a tale of interest than to impart historical knowledge, for the facts of the dreadful time...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：571 作者： 未知
简介：Some half a mile back from the sea, near the point where the low line of sandy hill is broken by the entrance into Poole Harbour, stood, in 1791, Netherstock; which, with a small estate around, was th...
