Follow the Ball
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：609 作者： 未知
简介：The school year was nearly over and there were many things that he had meant to do and hadnt done. There was that extra course in the spring term, there was that reading that was to have made next yea...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：609 作者： 未知
简介：The school year was nearly over and there were many things that he had meant to do and hadnt done. There was that extra course in the spring term, there was that reading that was to have made next yea...
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简介：ON the 20th of September, 1837, a lad was standing before Mr. M'Neill, the British minister at the Persian court. Both looked grave, for the interview was an important one. The former felt that it was...
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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...
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简介：Kenneth Stockton was a man of letters, and correspondingly poor. He was the literary editor of a leading metropolitan daily; but this job only netted him fifty dollars a week, and he was lucky to get ...
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简介：A wiry, grave-faced youngster sat in the corner of the railway carriage watching a stupid parent saying good-bye to a stupid boy....
类别：儿童英文小说 点击次数：607 作者： 未知
简介：Everybody knows that Grandfather Frog has a big mouth. Of course! It wouldn't be possible to look him straight in the face and not know that he has a big mouth. In fact, about all you see when you loo...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：606 作者： 未知
简介：A Paradoxical philosopher, carrying to the uttermost length that aphorism of Montesquieu's, 'Happy the people whose annals are tiresome,' has said; 'Happy the people whose annals are vacant.' In which...
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简介：This translation will not, it is hoped, be unacceptable to the English reader, particularly at the present moment, when it is not improbable that, under certain circumstances, a great effort may be ma...
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简介：Four individuals, in whose fortunes we should be glad to interest the reader, happened to be standing in one of the saloons of the sculpture-gallery in the Capitol at Rome. It was that room (the first...
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简介：Besides Galway Mike, who was reading the Pahrump County News behind the bar, there were three men in Mike's Place. One of the three was a stranger. He sat drowsily at the corner table, hat pulled over...