The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprenticesby Charles DickensCHAPTER IIn the autumn month of September, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven,wherein these presents bear date, two idle apprentices, exhaustedby the long, hot summer, and the long, hot work it had brought withit, ran away from their employer. They were bound to a highlymeritorious lady (named Literature), of fair credit and repute,though, it must be acknowledged, not quite so highly esteemed in...
The Diary of a Goose GirlThe Diary of a GooseGirlby Kate Douglas Wiggin1- Page 2-The Diary of a Goose GirlTHORNYCROFT FARM, nearBarbury Green, July 1, 190-.In alluding to myself as a Goose Girl, I am using only the most modestof my titles; for I am also a poultry-maid, a tender of Belgian hares and...
塞娜走着走着就走不动了,夏日的夜晚,清凉的风像冰淇淋的吻,树叶们快乐地颤抖,花儿舞蹈。这是城郊的一条小路,不远处就是一丛丛的矮房,泥土的熏染中它们像是一只只的船。塞娜看着它们,再低头看自己圆润的小腿,两根萝卜似的小腿,在黑暗中发光。那是汗水对月光的反射。耳机里的音乐声突然停住,咔的一声。电池没电了。随身听里装的是大七自己录的磁带,鼓声,电子吉他声,还有一个女人的低低的歌声。塞娜有时候会听不清楚她的声音,可是感觉上是清甜的。她想象那个女孩的样子,会不会有一双装满星星的眼睛?大七是七月打来电话的,那时候塞娜正在睡觉,家里没有人,爸爸上班去了。塞娜已经忘了那个中午做的梦,她只记得迷迷糊糊睁开眼睛时,看到太阳明亮的光线刺进起来,如蜃景的箭。电话一声一声地欢叫,塞娜没有去接,只是看着窗外发呆。可是电话没停,一直一直在响。...
Lecture IXThe Primitive Forms of Legal RemediesI.I stated on a former occasion (Lecture 1. p. 8) that thebranch of law which we now call the Law of Distress occupies thegreatest part of the largest Brehon law-tract, the Senchus Mor.The importance thus given to Distress is a fact of muchsignificance, and in this and the following Lecture I propose to...
Mark Twain, A Biography, 1900-1907By Albert Bigelow PaineVOLUME III, Part 1: 1900-1907CCXIITHE RETURN OF THE CONQUERORIt would be hard to exaggerate the stir which the newspapers and thepublic generally made over the homecoming of Mark Twain. He had leftAmerica, staggering under heavy obligation and set out on a pilgrimage ofredemption. At the moment when this Mecca, was in view a great sorrowhad befallen him and, stirred a world-wide and soul-deep tide of human...
TRUSTY JOHNONCE upon a time there was an old king who was soill that he thought to himself, "I am most likely on mydeath-bed." Then he said, "Send Trusty John to me."Now Trusty John was his favorite servant, and was socalled because all his life he had served him so faithfully.When he approached the bed the King spake to him:"Most trusty John, I feel my end is drawing near, and Icould face it without a care were it not for my son. Heis still too young to decide everything for himself, and...
The Lifted Veilby George Eliot [Mary Anne Evans]CHAPTER IThe time of my end approaches. I have lately been subject toattacks of angina pectoris; and in the ordinary course of things,my physician tells me, I may fairly hope that my life will not beprotracted many months. Unless, then, I am cursed with anexceptional physical constitution, as I am cursed with anexceptional mental character, I shall not much longer groan underthe wearisome burthen of this earthly existence. If it were to be...
Betty Zaneby Zane GreyTO THE BETTY ZANE CHAPTER OF THE DAUGHTERS OF THE REVOLUTION THIS BOOK IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED BY THE AUTHORNOTEIn a quiet corner of the stately little city of Wheeling, West Va., stands a monument on which is inscribed:"By authority of the State of West Virginia to commemorate the siege of Fort Henry, Sept 11, 1782, the last battle of the American Revolution, this tablet is here placed."Had it not been for the heroism of a girl the foregoing inscription would never have
温湄糊里糊涂搞定考试出来,脑子里还残存着些稀奇古怪的日耳曼语法。选修课老师真是异想天开,还指望他们在暑假里放着大好年华不去挥霍,对着书本念什么“阿杯侧N”。上完这个学期以后再也不去学第二外语了,如果不是为了坚守“有始有终”的人生信条,这个学期她死也不会再去选德语。上个学期的痛苦经历惟一教会她的,就是相比之下英语是一种多么简明多么可爱的语言,真后悔以前没有好好对待它。热热的晚风吹来,没带丝毫凉意。南方的夏天来得早,走得晚,更不用说是今年这样五十年一遇的高温天气。再加上这个去年刚开始使用的、马路宽度媲美本市最繁华商业街的新校区,路旁的树木一律只有小孩手臂一般“粗壮”,离成荫还有个几十年时间,根本没有办法遮天蔽日。于是每天中午都可以看见行色匆匆的校友们像逃难一样,在烈日下以不影响形象的最快速度飞奔,只求少晒得一分钟是一分钟。...
第一天12月3日星期五“红十月”号核潜艇苏联海军一级舰长马科.拉米乌斯让特制的北极防寒服,呢绒服和油布衫在身上厚厚地裹了五层。这是在波利亚尔内的北海舰队潜艇基地里的标准服装。一艘肮脏的海港拖轮推着艇首,掉头向北,对着出海的航道。他的“红十月”号潜艇在船坞里熬过了漫长的两个月;船坞现在已成了一个灌满海水的水泥盒子。这种船坞是专门为战略寻弹潜艇修建的,能抵御当地严酷的大自然的侵袭。许多海军水兵和船工挤在船坞边上,默默地看着她启航,既没有挥手,也没有欢呼。这是俄国方式的:无动于衷。“轮机,缓速前进,卡马罗夫,”他命令道。拖轮离升了航道。拉米乌斯向艇尾看去,两个螺旋桨搅起了滚滚浪花。拖轮的船长向他挥动着手臂,拉米乌斯也向他挥挥手。拖轮干了一项很简单的工作,但是干得干净利落。“台风”级潜艇“红十月”号在自己的动力推动下向科里湾主航道驶去。...
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The Club of Queer Tradesby G.K.ChestertonChapter 1The Tremendous Adventures of Major BrownRabelais, or his wild illustrator Gustave Dore, must have had something to do with the designing of the things called flats in England and America. There is something entirely Gargantuan in the idea of economising space by piling houses on top of each other, front doors and all. And in the chaos and complexity of those perpendicular streets anything may dwell or happen, and it is in one of them, I believe,