简介： In the morning， at six o'clock ， the servant went into Werther's room with a candle. He found his master stretched upon the floor， weltering in his blood， and the pistols at his side. He called ， he took him in his arms， but received no answer. Life was not yet quite extinct. The servant ran for a surgeon ， and then went to fetch Albert. Charlotteheard the ringing of the bell ： a cold shudder seized her. She wakened her husband ， and they both rose. The servant， bathed in tears faltered fo查看详情>
简介： Treats Of The Place Where Oliver Twist Was Born And Of The Circumstances Attending His Birth.Among other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain frommentioning, and to which I will assign no fictitious name, there is one anciently common to most towns, great or small towit, a workhouse and in this workhouse was born, on a day and date which I need not trouble myself to repeat, inasmuch as it can be of no possible consequence to the reader, in this查看详情>
简介： He laughed &mdash a large, wholesome laugh &mdash and this began a dissertation on the rights of a man to do what he liked with his own creations, which being a matter of purely professional interest, I will mercifully omit.Returning to the big chair, he, speaking of truth and the like in literature, said that an autobiography was the one work in which a man, against his own will and in spite of his utmost striving to the contrary, revealed himself in his true light to the world.&lsquoA good dea查看详情>
简介： When young Mark Robarts was leaving college, his father might well declare that all men began to say all good things to him, and to extol his fortune in that he had a son blessed with an excellent disposition. This father was a physician living at Exeter. He was a gentleman possessed of no private means, but enjoying a lucrative practice, which had enabled him to maintain and educate a family with all the advantages which money can give in this country. Mark was his eldest son and second child a查看详情>
简介： The date is between twenty and thirty years ago. The place is an English sea-port. The time is night. And the business of the moment is &mdash dancing.The Mayor and Corporation of the town are giving a grand ball, in celebration of the departure of an Arctic expedition from their port. The ships of the expedition are two in number &mdash the Wanderer and the Sea-mew. They are to sail (in search of the Northwest Passage) on the next day, with the morning tide.Honor to the Mayor and Corporat查看详情>
简介： On the evening of the 17th March 1859, Captain Craventy gave a fête at Fort Reliance. Our readers must not at once imagine a grand entertainment, such as a court ball, or a musical soirée with a fine orchestra. Captain Craventy&rsquos reception was a very simple affair, yet he had spared no pains to give it éclat.In fact, under the auspices of Corporal Joliffe, the large room on the ground-floor was completely transformed. The rough walls, constructed of roughly-hewn trunks of t查看详情>
简介： Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it. And Scrooge's name was good upon `Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to.Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.Mind! I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined,myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the 查看详情>
