
短篇小说 | A Morning Walk
Archibald had been up many hours. He had breakfasted, and now he was taking a morning stroll along the village street, which was little other than a high ledge cut into the mountain-side.
Archibald had been up many hours. He had breakfasted, and now he was taking a morning stroll along the village street, which was little other than a high ledge cut into the mountain-side.
The gods do bear and will allow in kings The things which they abhor in rascal routes.
The drug clerk looks sharply at the white face half concealed by the high-turned overcoat collar.
Graham looked up at the little winking stars and they looked down at him. He bowed in acknowledgement to the supremacy of the moving power which is love; which is life.
I PRESUME everybody has heard of me. My name is the Signora Psyche Zenobia. This I know to be a fact.
The trouble began in Laredo. It was the Llano Kid's fault, for he should have confined his habit of manslaughter to Mexicans.
MADAME Carambeau wanted it strictly understood that she was not to be disturbed by Gustave's birthday party.
I NEVER knew anyone so keenly alive to a joke as the king was. He seemed to live only for joking. To tell a good story of the joke kind, and to tell it well, was the surest road to his favor.
Once or twice we had had sharp, brief contentions over certain points of behavior; but, prevailingly, give and take had been our rule.
Well, there is no question about it. The happiest little Free-Mulatto in all Louisiana is Aurélia, since her father has moved to “L’Isle des Mulâtres.”
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