The Red House Mysteryby A.A. Milne1The Red House MysteryTO JOHN VINE MILNE MY DEAR FATHER,Like all really nice people, you have a weakness for detective stories,and feel that there are not enough of them. So, after all that you havedone for me, the least that I can do for you is to write you one. Here itis: with more gratitude and affection than I can well put down here.A.A.M.2The Red House MysteryCHAPTER IMrs. Stevens is Frightened...
The Red Sealby Natalie Sumner LincolnCHAPTER IIN THE POLICE COURTTe Assistant District Attorney glanced down at the papers in his hand and then up at the well-dressed, stockily built man occupying the witness stand. His manner was conciliatory."According to your testimony, Mr. Clymer, the prisoner, John Sylvester, was honest and reliable, and faithfully performed his duties as confidential clerk," he stated. "Just when was Sylvester in your employ?""Sylvester was never in my employ," correcte
La Mere Baucheby Anthony TrollopeThe Pyreneean valley in which the baths of Vernet are situated is notmuch known to English, or indeed to any travellers. Tourists insearch of good hotels and picturesque beauty combined, do notgenerally extend their journeys to the Eastern Pyrenees. They rarelyget beyond Luchon; and in this they are right, as they thus end theirperegrinations at the most lovely spot among these mountains, and areas a rule so deceived, imposed on, and bewildered by guides,...
SHERLOCK HOLMESTHE ADVENTURE OF THE CREEPING MANby Sir Arthur Conan DoyleMr. Sherlock Holmes was always of opinion that I should publishthe singular facts connected with Professor Presbury, if only todispel once for all the ugly rumours which some twenty years agoagitated the university and were echoed in the learned societies ofLondon. There were, however, certain obstacles in the way, and the...
我知道,我无法回避,无法躲闪,每一次经过海湾村的村口,恰巧或是刻意,我都有一丝牵挂,一点牵绊,一阵茫然。 3年前,我在那里“卧底”采访了两个月。 3年来,我在村里结识的女伴们,那些另类婚姻的尝试者、实践者,我曾暗访过的那些“二奶”,无论是阿洁、阿月,还是阿金、阿银,除了“扶正”后搬迁至新居的佳佳之外,我都没有看到她们的命运有什么改变。在被港人包养的岁月里,她们的生活依旧,甚至愈来愈艰难,她们的容颜在期望新生活的等待中逐渐老去。 “二奶”是客观存在的事实,多年来“只能做不能写”,对这一群体或个案,一直处于“封锁”状态。这是一个谁都知道存在,谁也说不清楚前因后果的男女结合的“怪胎”。我的卧底“二奶群落”的计划,酝酿了较长时间。我服务于大陆媒体的时候,老总们觉得我的主意不错,可以把这个问题拿到阳光下晒一晒,但也直率地告诉我,报社是不可能发“二奶”一类的长篇新闻报...
第一卷┌───────┐└───────┘(第一部)第一章清晨,一列从北平向东开行的平沈通车,正驰行在广阔、碧绿的原野上。茂密的庄稼,明亮的小河,黄色的泥屋,矗立的电杆……全闪电似的在凭倚车窗的乘客眼前闪了过去。乘客们吸足了新鲜空气,看车外看得腻烦了,一个个都慢慢回过头来,有的打着呵欠,有的搜寻着车上的新奇事物。不久人们的视线都集中到一个小小的行李卷上,那上面插着用漂亮的白绸子包起来的南胡、箫、笛,旁边还放着整洁的琵琶、月琴、竹笙,……这是贩卖乐器的吗,旅客们注意起这行李的主人来。不是商人,却是一个十七八岁的女学生,寂寞地守着这些幽雅的玩艺儿。这女学生穿着白洋布短旗袍、白线袜、白运动鞋,手里捏着一条素白的手绢,——浑身上下全是白色。她没有同伴,只一个人坐在车厢一角的硬木位子上,动也不动地凝望着车厢外边。她的脸略显苍白,两只大眼睛又黑又亮。这个朴素、孤单的美丽少女...
卷三 近代哲学第一篇 从文艺复兴到西方哲学史第一章 总说- 通常谓之“近代”的这段历史时期,人的思想见解和中古时期的思想见解有许多不同。其中有两点最重要,即教会的威信衰落下去,科学的威信逐步上升。旁的分歧和这两点全有连带关系。近代的文化宁可说是一种世俗文化而不是僧侣文化。国家越来越代替教会成为支配文化的统治势力。各民族的统治大权最初大都归国王掌领;后来,如同在古希腊一样,国王逐渐被民主国家或僭主所代替。民族国家的力量,以及它所行使的职权,在整个这时期当中稳步发展,不断扩大(一些小波折不算);但是按大多情况讲,国家对哲学家的见解所起的影响总比不上中世纪时的教会。在阿尔卑斯山以北,一直到十五世纪向来能够和中央政权分庭抗礼的封建贵族,首先丧失了政治上的重要地位,后来又失掉了经济地位。...
Lecture IXCONVERSIONTo be converted, to be regenerated, to receive grace, toexperience religion, to gain an assurance, are so many phraseswhich denote the process, gradual or sudden, by which a selfhitherto divided, and consciously wrong inferior and unhappy,becomes unified and consciously right superior and happy, inconsequence of its firmer hold upon religious realities. This atleast is what conversion signifies in general terms, whether or...