The Wings of the Dove
Category: Author:亨利.詹姆斯 Henry James
是悲剧三角恋中不可磨灭的一幕,两个贫穷而热情的恋人勾引了一个垂死的女人,希望她能给她们留下自己的财富。故事结束于Kate的一句隐晦的惊叹:我们永远不再是以前的我们了!
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Category: Author:亨利.詹姆斯 Henry James
是悲剧三角恋中不可磨灭的一幕,两个贫穷而热情的恋人勾引了一个垂死的女人,希望她能给她们留下自己的财富。故事结束于Kate的一句隐晦的惊叹:我们永远不再是以前的我们了!
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Category: Author:Edith Nesbit
He happened to be building a Palace when the news came, and he left all the bricks kicking about the floor for Nurse to clear up—but then the news was rather remarkable news. You see, there was a knock at the front door and voices talking downstairs, and Lionel thought it was the man come to see about the gas, which had not been allowe...
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Category: Author:novel
An immense gallery, five hundred feet long, occupied the upper floor of the main factory-building. Looking down the gallery, a perspective of iron girders spanned the roof, gaunt skeletons of architecture, uncompromising, inexorably utilitarian, inflexible, remorseless. A drone of machinery filled the air, neither very loud nor v...
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Category: Author:novel
Every one knew little Violet. She sat always in a small window which projected out over the street, and her purple frock and pale face were looked for and recognized by almost every passer-by.
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Category: Author:novel
The proud lady in the new runabout was homeward bound from a shopping raid. It was her first voyage down-town alone with the thing. She guided the old family horse up to her curb in a graceful sweep, but, like a new elevator-boy, could not come to a stop at the stopping-place.
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Category: Author:novel
AD you not better go on a little faster with your work, Polly?” said Minnie Wingfield, glancing up for a minute from her own, over which her little fingers had been busily moving, and from which she now for the first time raised her eyes.
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Category: Author:novel
The cry, taken up by a score of youthful voices, echoed and re-echoed along the concrete-paved corridors of the Averleigh T.D.S.—such being the official designation of the Training and Disciplinary School—one of those mushroom-growth establishments that bid fair to blossom into permanent instruction schools under the aegis of the juven...
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Category: Author:novel
"And she is to be there--nay, is there already; so one more chance is given me to meet her. But for what?--to part again silently, and more helplessly bewitched than ever, perhaps. Ah, never will she learn to love me as I love her!" thought I, as I turned over my old friend's letter, not venturing, however, to give utterance to this al...
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