短篇小说 | Christmas By Injunction

2020年2月16日

Cherokee was the civic father of Yellowhammer. Yellowhammer was a new mining town constructed mainly of canvas and undressed pine. Cherokee was a prospector.

短篇小说 | Ma'ame Pelagie

2020年2月16日

When the war began, there stood on Cote Joyeuse an imposing mansion of red brick, shaped like the Pantheon. A grove of majestic live-oaks surrounded it.

短篇小说 | The Man That Was Used Up

2020年2月15日

I cannot just now remember when or where I first made the acquaintance of that truly fine-looking fellow, Brevet Brigadier General John A. B. C. Smith.

短篇小说 | Cherchez La Femme

2020年2月15日

Robbins, reporter for the /Picayune/, and Dumars, of /L'Abeille/--the old French newspaper that has buzzed for nearly a century--were good friends, well proven by years of ups and downs together.

短篇小说 | Love on the Bon-Dieu

2020年2月15日

UPON the pleasant veranda of Père Antoine's cottage, that adjoined the church, a young girl had long been seated, awaiting his return.

短篇小说 | The Man of the Crowd

2020年2月14日

It was well said of a certain German book that "er lasst sich nicht lesen"--it does not permit itself to be read. There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.

短篇小说 | Caught

2020年2月14日

The plans for the detention of the flying President Miraflores and his companion at the coast line seemed hardly likely to fail. Doctor Zavalla himself had gone to the port of Alazan to establish a guard at that point.

短篇小说 | Loka

2020年2月14日

She had appeared one day at the side door of Frobissaint’s “oyster saloon” in Natchitoches, asking for food. Frobissaint, a practical philanthropist, engaged her on the spot as tumbler-washer.

短篇小说 | Lilacs

2020年2月13日

Mme. Adrienne Farival never announced her coming; but the good nuns knew very well when to look for her.

短篇小说 | The Landscape Garden

2020年2月12日

No more remarkable man ever lived than my friend, the young Ellison. He was remarkable in the entire and continuous profusion of good gifts ever lavished upon him by fortune.