The Executor
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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：453 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：453 作者： 未知
简介：This is the twenty-second pairOf white kid gloves, I do declare,I've had this month. I can not wearWhite kids at such a pace....
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简介：On the morning of February 2nd, 1789, a lady was taking a solitary stroll in Kew Gardens. She was a small person, of dainty features, with a dimple on each side of her mouth that suggested a smile, va...
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简介：The Emperor Charlemagne and his twelve peers, having taken the palmers staff at Saint-Denis, made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. They prostrated themselves before the tomb of Our Lord, and sat in the thir...
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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...
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简介：It is a necessity of the human mind to give everything a name, thus recognising a difference between one thing and another, and recording it. Science, which is the highest development of this necessit...
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简介：Everyone should have known. They should have known as surely as though it were written in the curved palm of the wind. They should have known when they looked up at the empty sky; they should have kno...
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简介：It's true, Consul Passwyn said, I requested assignment as principal officer at a small post. But I had in mind one of those charming resort worlds, with only an occasional visa problem, or perhaps a d...
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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：These were the words of Mr. Hume, an infidel, spoken in the village store. It was Monday evening. By some strange freak, or led by a divine impulse, he had determined, the previous Sunday afternoon, t...