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2022年4月30日

There, were 3,000 girls in the Biggest Store. Masie was one of them. She was eighteen and a selleslady in the gents' gloves.

2022年4月29日

All were crowding around M. Bermutier, the judge, who was giving his opinion about the Saint-Cloud mystery.

2022年4月28日

He took out the morocco case, opened it, and looked at the photograph. 'I wonder?' he said at last.

2022年4月27日

But neither Aunt Hannah nor Betsey ever knew that the quilt and the doll were Jimmy Scarecrow's Christmas presents to them.

2022年4月26日

Animals talk to each other, of course. There can be no question about that; but I suppose there are very few people who can understand them.

2022年4月25日

I did not hear the maiden's name; but in my thought I have ever since called her "Gentle Hand." What a magic lay in her touch! It was wonderful.

2022年4月24日

There is a hotel on Broadway that has escaped discovery by the summer-resort promoters.

2022年4月23日

"Villains!" I shrieked, "dissemble no more! I admit the deed!--tear up the planks!--here, here!--it is the beating of his hideous heart!"

2022年4月22日

"All the same, we are very fond of women, we Frenchmen!"

2022年4月21日

It was Christmas Eve, and the family circle of Luke Steffink, Esq., was aglow with the amiability and random mirth which the occasion demanded.

2022年4月20日

Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed.

2022年4月19日

Kenelm Jerton entered the dining-hall of the Golden Galleon Hotel in the full crush of the luncheon hour.