类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： It was late evening when John Penhale left the Helston lawyers office. A fine drizzle was blowing down Coinage Hall Street; thin beams of light pierced the chinks of house shutters and curtains, barred the blue dusk with misty orange rays, touched th...
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简介： On a certain day in the year of grace 1920, there came into being a special and very select club. There was no entrance fee and no subscription, in which respect it differed from all other clubs. Its membership was limited to six: the Actor, the...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： It wasn't that Pete Cooper didn't love his wives, or that he wanted to see them hurry on into the next world. He always felt real grief when he found himself a widower....
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Those who undertake to write histories, do not, I perceive, take that trouble on one and the same account, but for many reasons, and those such as are very different one from another. For some of them apply themselves to this part of learning to show...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Toward the end of the year 1920 the Government of the United States had practically completed the programme, adopted during the last months of President Winthrop's administration. The country was apparently tranquil. Everybody knows how the Tariff an...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： If the volume now presented to the public were a mere work of ART, the history of its misfortune might be written in two very simple wordsTOO LATE. The nature and character of slavery have been subjects of an almost endless variety of artistic repres...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Feetch! grated Ogden Piltdon, president of the Piltdon Opener Company, slamming the drafting board with his hairy fist, I want results!Heads lifted over boards. Kalvin Feetch shrunk visibly....
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： A tall, slim girl, half-past sixteen, with serious gray eyes and hair which her friends called auburn, had sat down on the broad red sandstone doorstep of a Prince Edward Island farmhouse one ripe afternoon in August, firmly resolved to construe so m...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utterance to a threat. At length I would be avenged...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： IT was two hours after the muezzin had called to evening prayer, and night had canopied Tangier with a million stars. In the little Sok, the bread-sellers sat cross-legged behind their wares, their candles burning steadily, for there was not so much...
