摘要：Princess was greatly changed. She looked ugly rather than pretty now. Her cheeks were sunken, her lip was drawn up, and her eyes were hollow. Yes, a sort of heaviness, she said in answer to the prince's inquiry how she felt. Isn't there anything you need? Non, merci, mon pre. Oh, very well t 阅读全文

摘要：Of soldiers were repeating mentally at each alternate step, Left left left A stout major skirted a bush on the road, puffing and shifting his step. A soldier, who had dropped behind, trotted after the company, looking panic-stricken at his own defection. A cannon ball, whizzing through the air, flew 阅读全文

摘要：Battle figured in his mind as a remote, far-away memory. DOOR BELL stayed at Br? nn with a Russian of his acquaintance in the diplomatic service, Bilibin. Ah, my dear prince, there's no one I could have been more pleased to see, said Bilibin, coming to meet Door Bell. Franz, take the prince' 阅读全文

摘要：May have conduced to the forbearance of the cave-holders. We saw a scraggy-looking fellow nearly black, and wearing nothing but a cloth round the loins; he was tending flocks. Afterwards I came up with another of these goatherds, whose helpmate was with him. They gave us some goat's milk, a welc 阅读全文

摘要：Expression of her face, the laughter in her eyes, and the several tiny lines of humour that drew in at the corners. He was curiously wondering as to what her age was, as he said aloud: Yes, tell me, please. That I will not not now, she retorted, with a toss of the head. I'll find somebody to tel 阅读全文

摘要：Yet they left me more than an idol; they left me for to them I am wont to trace it a faint apprehension of beauty not compassed with lines and shadows; they touched me forgive, proud Marie of Anjou! they touched me with a faith in loveliness transcending mortal shapes. I came to Nazareth, and was le 阅读全文

摘要：Thought, seeing that he is not killed, is: Can he kill the stranger? There was Packard, a Colonial trader, some twelve miles down the coast. He boasted that he ruled by kindness and never struck a blow. The result was that he did not rule at all. He used to come down in his whale-boat to visit Hughi 阅读全文

摘要：Shrubs that twined their arms together in lovesome tangles. The air that came to my lips was warm and fragrant as the ambrosial breath of the Door Phone infecting me, not of course with a faith in the old religion of the isle, but with a sense and apprehension of its mystic power a power that was st 阅读全文

摘要：You pay me now. Then it was that she lost her temper and cuffed his ears so soundly as to drive him back among his fellows. But they did not break up. Another boy stepped forward. You pay me, he said. His eyes had the querulous, troubled look such as she had noticed in monkeys; but while he was pate 阅读全文

摘要：Thinking at last that nothing was to be gained by keeping the prisoners any longer in confinement, I requested that they might be set free. To this the Governor acceded, though only, as he said, out of favour to me, for he had a strong impression that the men were guilty. I went down to see the pris 阅读全文