On the Irrawaddy
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：528 作者： 未知
简介：A party was assembled in a room of an hotel in Calcutta, at the end of the year 1822. It consisted of a gentleman, a lady in deep mourning, a boy of between fourteen and fifteen, and two girls of thir...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：528 作者： 未知
简介：A party was assembled in a room of an hotel in Calcutta, at the end of the year 1822. It consisted of a gentleman, a lady in deep mourning, a boy of between fourteen and fifteen, and two girls of thir...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：528 作者： 未知
简介：And you dont think maybe I ought to have had lemon custard to go with the pumpkin instead of the mince?Miss Marilla Chadwick turned from her anxious watching at the kitchen window to search Mary Amber...
类别：儿童英文小说 点击次数：528 作者： Margaret Sidney
简介：When the friends of the Pepper family found that the author was firm in her decision to continue their history no further they brought their appeals for the details of some of those good times that ma...
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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：ONSIEUR BERGERET was seated at table taking his frugal evening meal. Riquet lay at his feet on a tapestry cushion. Riquet had a religious soul; he rendered divine honours to mankind. He regarded his m...
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简介：Many people did not like Jessop. He had rather a brutal manner sometimes of telling brutal thingsthe truth, he called it. They don't like it, he once said to me in a rare moment of confidence. But why...
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简介：Three o'clock on a warm June afternoon. The great heat has caused something like a purple haze to cloud over the deep blue of the sapphire sky. There is not one breath of wind to stir the leaves or co...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：526 作者： 未知
简介：In these piping days when fiction plays the handmaid or prophet to various propaganda; when the majority of writers are trying to prove something, or acting as venders of some new-fangled social nostr...
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简介：For some time much has been said, in England and on the Continent, concerning Positivism and the Positive Philosophy. Those phrases, which during the life of the eminent thinker who introduced them ha...
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简介：Bridget Kelly stood at the foot of the rocket lift and watched the loading operation. The freight had long since been inspected and stowed, and now it was the passengers' turn. Bridget was glad that f...