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短篇小说 | Innocents of Broadway

2020年3月7日

"I hope some day to retire from business," said Jeff Peters; "and when I do I don't want anybody to be able to say that I ever got a dollar of any man's money without giving him a quid pro rata for it.

短篇小说 | Hygeia At The Solito

2020年3月6日

If you are knowing in the chronicles of the ring you will recall to mind an event in the early 'nineties when, for a minute and sundry odd seconds, a champion and a "would-be" faced each other on the alien side of an international river.

短篇小说 | Hostages to Momus

2020年3月5日

I never got inside of the legitimate line of graft but once. But, one time, as I say, I reversed the decision of the revised statutes and undertook a thing that I'd have to apologize for even under the New Jersey trust laws.

短篇小说 | The Storm

2020年3月5日

Calixta, at home, felt no uneasiness for their safety. She sat at a side window sewing furiously on a sewing machine.

短篇小说 | X-ing a Paragrab

2020年3月4日

AS it is well known that the 'wise men' came 'from the East,' and as Mr. Touch-and-go Bullet-head came from the East, it follows that Mr. Bullet-head was a wise man; and if collateral proof of the matter be needed, here we have it -- Mr. B. was an editor.

短篇小说 | William Wilson

2020年3月3日

"You have conquered, and I yield. Yet, henceforward art thou also dead -- dead to the World, to Heaven and to Hope! In me didst thou exist -- and, in my death, see by this image, which is thine own, how utterly thou hast murdered thyself."

短篇小说 | The Recovery

2020年3月3日

She was a woman of thirty-five, possessing something of youthfulness. It was not the bloom, the softness, nor delicacy of coloring which had once been hers; those were all gone.