类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：433 作者： Anatole France
简介：HE salon which the Cardinal-Archbishop used as a reception room had been fitted, in the time of Louis XV., with panellings of carved wood painted a light grey. Seated figures of women surrounded by tr...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：433 作者： 未知
简介：It was the most extraordinary of speeches, considering the circumstances and place in which it was spoken. A parlour of very grim and homely aspect, furnished with dark mahogany and black haircloth, t...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：433 作者： 未知
简介：IN Sailing Ships and their Story I endeavoured to trace the evolution of the ship from the very earliest times of which we possess any historical data at all down to the canvas-setting craft of to-day...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：433 作者： 未知
简介：FROM my earliest recollections, and up to the ripe age of fifty-three, I had been an active and diligent worker in the world. This sounds absurd; but having almost no toys except such as I could manuf...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：432 作者： 未知
简介：There had been several days of thick, murky weatherdull, uncomplaining days that bore their burden of fog and rain in monotonous endurance. Six of such I had lived through; a passive existence, parcel...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：432 作者： 未知
简介：Any people who may happen to have read the story of Wilful, the Conceited Pig, will recollect how he had called up his friend, Miss Peck, one night, from the henhouse, where there had been a great dis...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：431 作者： 未知
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...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：431 作者： 未知
简介：Tick-de-tock, tick-de-tock, whispered the antique clock on the first floor of the house.There was no sound save for the tickingand for the pounding of Ronnie's heart....
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：431 作者： 未知
简介：In what relation the Apology of Plato stands to the real defence of Socrates, there are no means of determining. It certainly agrees in tone and character with the description of Xenophon, who says in...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：431 作者： 未知
简介：In the year 1907, the Womans Home Companion commissioned me to go to Russia to write the story of the early days, courtship and marriage of her whom the world knows to-day as the Tsaritsa. The followi...
