The Noble Rogue
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简介:M. Legros, tailor-in-chief to His Majesty Louis XIV and to the Court of Paris and Versailles, bowed himself out of the room; with back bent nearly double, and knees trembling in the effort, he receded...
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:587 作者: 未知
简介:M. Legros, tailor-in-chief to His Majesty Louis XIV and to the Court of Paris and Versailles, bowed himself out of the room; with back bent nearly double, and knees trembling in the effort, he receded...
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:586 作者: 未知
简介:No. The chemises aren't cut out. I haven't had time. There are enough shirts to go on with, aren't there, Mrs. James? said Betty....
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简介:Called upon to describe Aunt Sophy you would have to coin a term or fall back on the dictionary definition of a spinster. An unmarried woman, states that worthy work, baldly, especially when no longer...
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简介:Cyril Kirk's first sight of the planet from the spaceship did nothing to abate the anger seething within him. He stared at it in disgust, glad there were no other passengers left to witness his arriva...
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简介:An immense gallery, five hundred feet long, occupied the upper floor of the main factory-building. Looking down the gallery, a perspective of iron girders spanned the roof, gaunt skeletons of architec...
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简介:Widow of a village merchant, mistress of an unpretending house in the little town of Plainton, Maine, and, by strange vicissitudes of fortune, the possessor of great wealth, she was on her way from Pa...
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简介:Rotherhithe in the year of 1572 differed very widely from the Rotherhithe of today. It was then a scattered village, inhabited chiefly by a seafaring population. It was here that the captains of many ...
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简介:The Spanish character has expressed itself in sculpture more forcibly than in painting. In no other country, perhaps, do we find a people whose native taste for carving in wood and stone is so deep-ro...
类别:儿童英文小说 点击次数:584 作者: 未知
简介:Talk of earthquakes! not all the earthquakes that have rumbled in Ecuador or toppled over the spires and dwellings of Peru could compare, in the matter of dogged pertinacity, with that earthquake whic...
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简介:The first idea of this Romance was suggested by the story of the Santon Barsisa, related in The Guardian.The Bleeding Nun is a tradition still credited in many parts of Germany; and I have been told t...