短篇小说 | An Angel in Disguise

2021年12月25日

Idleness, vice, and intemperance had done their miserable work, and the dead mother lay cold and still amid her wretched children. She had fallen upon the threshold of her own door in a drunken fit, and died in the presence of her frightened little ones.

短篇小说 | A Dark Brown Dog

2021年12月24日

A Child was standing on a street-corner. He leaned with one shoulder against a high board-fence and swayed the other to and fro, the while kicking carelessly at the gravel.

短篇小说 | Araby

2021年12月23日

North Richmond Street, being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers' School set the boys free.

短篇小说 | Desiree's Baby

2021年12月21日

As the day was pleasant, Madame Valmonde drove over to L'Abri to see Desiree and the baby. It made her laugh to think of Desiree with a baby.

短篇小说 | A Pair of Silk Stockings

2021年12月19日

Little Mrs. Sommers one day found herself the unexpected possessor of fifteen dollars. It seemed to her a very large amount of money, and the way in which it stuffed and bulged her worn old porte-monnaie gave her a feeling of importance such as she had not enjoyed for years.

短篇小说 | The Haunted Mind

2021年12月18日

By a desperate effort you start upright, breaking from a sort of conscious sleep and gazing wildly round the bed, as if the fiends were anywhere but in your haunted mind.

短篇小说 | Regret

2021年12月16日

MAMZELLE AURLIE possessed a good strong figure, ruddy cheeks, hair that was changing from brown to gray, and a determined eye. She wore a man's hat about the farm, and an old blue army overcoat when it was cold, and sometimes top-boots.

短篇小说 | The Cactus

2021年12月15日

The most notable thing about Time is that it is so purely relative. A large amount of reminiscence is, by common consent, conceded to the drowning man; and it is not past belief that one may review an entire courtship while removing one's gloves.