短篇小说 | The Oval Portrait

2020年2月19日

The chateau into which my valet had ventured to make forcible entrance, rather than permit me, in my desperately wounded condition, to pass a night in the open air, was one of those piles of commingled gloom and grandeur which have so long frowned among the Appennines, not less in fact than in the fancy of Mrs. Radcliffe.

短篇小说 | Miss McEnders

2020年2月19日

When Miss Georgie McEnders had finished an elaborately simple toilet of gray and black, she divested herself completely of rings, bangles, brooches – everything to suggest that she stood in friendly relations with fortune.

短篇小说 | The Oblong Box

2020年2月18日

Some years ago, I engaged passage from Charleston, S. C, to the city of New York, in the fine packet-ship "Independence," Captain Hardy. We were to sail on the fifteenth of the month (June), weather permitting; and on the fourteenth, I went on board to arrange some matters in my stateroom.

短篇小说 | Mamouche

2020年2月18日

Marshall grumbled audibly, and Doctor John-Luis continued to inspect the boy through his glasses.