She had a huge,rambling country house called 'The Gables'. She was sentimentally attached to thishouse,... [查看全文]
The Ideal Servant 理想的仆人 It is a good thing my aunt Harriet died years ago. If she were alive today ... [查看全文]
The most frightening thing ofall was that not a sound could be heard. There was no doubt that we were unwe... [查看全文]
Faces appeared at windows. Men in shirt sleeves stood outside their houses andglared at us. Old women in bla... [查看全文]
I concluded that they were simply shy ofstrangers. When we later walked down the main street of the village,... [查看全文]
All at once, Inoticed that my wife seemed to be filled with alarm. Looking up I saw that we weresurrounde... [查看全文]
Even under a clearblue sky, the village looked forbidding, as all the houses were built of grey mudbricks. T... [查看全文]
Though he was reluctant to do so at first, we eventually persuaded him to take us. The path led to a ti... [查看全文]
We could see that the path continued on the other side, but we had no ideahow we could get across the str... [查看全文]
On the day before our departure, several bus loads of touristsdescended on the town. This was more than we ... [查看全文]