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简介：Ruth Courthope Seer stood on her own doorstep and was content. She looked across the garden and the four-acre field with the white may hedge boundary. It was all hers. Her eyes slowly followed the way...
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简介：Living in the present days of peace and tranquillity it is difficult to picture the life of our ancestors in the days of King Alfred, when the whole country was for years overrun by hordes of pagan ba...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：415 作者： 未知
简介：On the 24th of April, 1840, having finished the business that had carried me into the Brazils, I arrived at Rio de Janeiro, where I found a vessel lying nearly loaded, and sailing for the port of Bris...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：414 作者： 未知
简介：He had forgotten the beer again. He remembered that he had forgotten only as he opened the apartment door. A wave of smoke and onions and hamburger flowed past him into the dingy corridor and he stumb...
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简介：The usually quiet old town of Dijon was in a state of excitement. There were groups of people in the streets; especially round the corners, where the official placards were posted up. Both at the Pref...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：413 作者： 未知
简介：There are men who cannot bring themselves to conform with the rest of human society, who cannot conceive of a secure and honorable career even at the hands of a tolerant age. They flee, they are etern...
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简介：The previous case was a Weeper, and he lost. So the Space Zoning Commissioners were damp and irritable before I opened pleadings for my client. I tried not to squelch as I approached the bench....
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：412 作者： 未知
简介：When a biographer encounters the duty of describing, in the abstract, a character which demands greater elaboration in order to do it reasonable justice, he must be excused for the roughness of the ou...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：412 作者： 未知
简介：A shoemaker named Simon, who had neither house nor land of his own, lived with his wife and children in a peasants hut, and earned his living by his work. Work was cheap, but bread was dear, and what ...
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简介：Dr. Kemp thus concisely and clearly stages the difference between instinct and reason: In the former there is an irresistible impulse to go through a certain series of motions after a certain fashion,...
