THE DEVOTED FRIENDOne morning the old Water-rat put his head out of his hole. He hadbright beady eyes and stiff grey whiskers and his tail was like along bit of black india-rubber. The little ducks were swimmingabout in the pond, looking just like a lot of yellow canaries, andtheir mother, who was pure white with real red legs, was trying toteach them how to stand on their heads in the water."You will never be in the best society unless you can stand on your...
The Ballad of the White Horseby G.K. ChestertonDEDICATIONOf great limbs gone to chaos,A great face turned to nightWhy bend above a shapeless shroudSeeking in such archaic cloudSight of strong lords and light?Where seven sunken EnglandsLie buried one by one,Why should one idle spade, I wonder,Shake up the dust of thanes like thunderTo smoke and choke the sun?In cloud of clay so cast to heavenWhat shape shall man discern?These lords may light the mystery...
Epilogue IChapter 1SEVEN YEARS had passed by. The storm-tossed, historic ocean of Europe was subsiding within its shores. It seemed to have grown calm; but the mysterious forces moving humanity (mysterious, because the laws controlling their action are unknown to us) were still at work.Although the surface of the ocean of history seemed motionless, the movement of humanity was as uninterrupted as the flow of time. Various series of groups of men were joining together and separating; the causes
The Pension Beaurepasby Henry JamesCHAPTER I.I was not richon the contrary; and I had been told the PensionBeaurepas was cheap. I had, moreover, been told that a boarding-house is a capital place for the study of human nature. I had afancy for a literary career, and a friend of mine had said to me, "Ifyou mean to write you ought to go and live in a boarding-house; thereis no other such place to pick up material." I had read something ofthis kind in a letter addressed by Stendhal to his siste
暮光之城 4 Breaking Dawn 破晓说明:《暮光之城》4《破晓》 ~~中文版将在第一时间更新~~!Copyright 2008 by Stephen^ Meyer All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the U.S. CopyrightAct of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or byany means, or stored in a database or retrieval system,without the prior written permission of the publisher.Little, Brown and CompanyHachette Book Group USA 237 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Visit our Web site at...
The Queen of Heartsby Wilkie CollinsLETTER OF DEDICATION.-TOEMILE FORGUES.-AT a time when French readers were altogether unaware of theexistence of any books of my writing, a critical examination ofmy novels appeared under your signature in the _Revue des DeuxMoudes_. I read that article, at the time of its appearance, withsincere pleasure and sincere gratitude to the writer, and I havehonestly done my best to profit by it ever since.At a later period, when arrangements were made for the...
维尔农场。一个七岁的小男孩正在院子里专注地练习中国武术。他叫杰克•维尔。他一会儿踢腿,一会儿伸出双臂在半空中使出一个横劈的招数,目光锐利,嘴里还念念有声,仿佛正在和一个不怀好意的家伙过招。突然,他稚嫩而胖乎乎的小拳头划过空中之后,停住了。“噢,爸爸!”他眼睛望向远处,无限惊喜地叫道。院子的栅栏门口,一对中年夫妇正带着无比骄傲和幸福的微笑看着杰克。那个留着并不浓密的络腮胡子的中年男人,朝杰克竖起了大拇指。他是杰克的父亲西蒙•维尔,同时又是一位非常有才气的科学家。站在他身边的那个身材高挑,体形轻巧,有一头漂亮而又飘逸的褐色披肩长发的中年女人,是他的妻子,也就是杰克的母亲卡罗琳,她曾经在电脑公司担任要职。但自从杰克出世后,由于丈夫忙于科学研究和试验,再加上维尔农场需要人照料,卡罗琳只得辞职,一心一意地照顾家庭和管理维尔农场。...
李嘉诚出生于潮州的书香世家,从小聪颖好学。风云突变,日军侵占潮州,父亲教育救国的理想泯灭,亦打碎李嘉诚求学治学的志向。1940年冬,少年李嘉诚跟随父母,冒着生命危险,历经艰辛,逃到香港。如果不是李嘉诚,李氏家族史很可能湮没在浩瀚的历史尘埃中。20世纪末叶,经济热成为全球性的时代大潮。一代超人李嘉诚,人称香港首富,同时又是世界华人首富,在华夏经济史上耸起一座丰碑,举世瞩目。山不在高,有仙则名;水不在深,有龙则灵。在广东省潮州市北门街面线巷,有一座极为寻常的古宅。小巷毗邻喧哗的北门市场,如面线一般狭长。它宅门不大,亦无雕龙画凤。“古色古香,静谧幽雅”,似与这幢古宅无缘。然而,就是这幢普普通通的古宅,吸引了众多的当地居民及外来游客前来瞻仰参观。...