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... early Saturday morn they were hats of two springs ago, and a woman's eye would have detected the fraud at half SHORT STORY BY O’HENRY The Red Roses Of Tonia A trestle burned down on ... heard the drumming of hoofs, the hollow "thwack" of chaparral against wooden stirrups, the whoop of a Comanche; and Wells Pearson burst out of the brush at the ri...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 12:15

... be got over?’ ’Not a bit of it,’ replied Sikes. ’Not by flash Toby Crackit?’ said the Jew incredulously. ‘Think what women are, Bill,’ ’No; not even by flash Toby Crackit,’ replied Sikes. ... afraid of our getting the better of you, are you?’ inquired Sikes, fixing his eyes on the Jew. ‘Ugh!’ With a hoarse grunt of contempt, Mr. Sikes seized the glass, and threw the remaind...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 02:15

... volume. It was a history of the lives and trials of great criminals; and the pages were soiled and thumbed with use. Here, he read of dreadful crimes that made the blood run cold; of secret murders ... the worthy gentleman, stimulated perhaps by the immediate prospect of being on active service, was in great spirits and good humour; in proof whereof, it may be here remarked,...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 02:15

... advice, Mr. Crackit, preferring the chance of being shot by his friend, to the certainty of being taken by his enemies, fairly turned tail, and darted off at full speed. Sikes clenched his teeth; ... loud shouting of men vibrated through the air, and the barking of the neighbouring dogs, roused by the sound of the alarm bell, resounded in every direction. ’Stop, you whit...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 03:15

... And seeing, by the bye, that Brittles had been a slow boy for upwards of thirty years, there appeared no great probability of his ever being a fast one. ’He gets worse instead of better, I ... silence of the night, too!’ The doctor seemed expecially troubled by the fact of the robbery having been unexpected, and attempted in the night-time; as if it were the established cus...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 03:15

... ‘em off’en. He warn’t one of the family, at that time; and one night he was robbed of three hundred and twenty-seven guineas in a canvas bag, that was stole out of his bedrrom in the dead of ... the villain!’ ‘Come!’ said Spyers, offering him a pinch of snuff, ‘none of that gammon! You did it yourself.’ So he had; and a good bit of money he had made by it, too; and nobod...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 03:15

... hump-backed man stared, as if in excess of amazement and indignation; then, twisting himself, dexterously, from the doctor’s grasp, growled forth a volley of horrid oaths, and retired into the house. ... covered with fresh turf and moss: beneath which, the old people of the village lay at rest. Oliver often wandered here; and, thinking of the wretched grave in which his mother lay...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 03:15

... trampling of feet caused him to fear that something too dreadful to think of, had even then occurred! And what had been the fervency of all the prayers he had ever muttered, compared with those ... sinking of soul and spirit, which the sad remembrance of our helplessness produces; what tortures can equal these; what reflections or endeavours can, in the full tide and fever of...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 03:15

... honoured with a short whispering conference with the doctor, on the termination of which, he made a great many bows, and retired with steps of unusual stateliness. The subject matter of this ... alike of the name of man and of the woman you describe, who acted thus.’ By and by, ’ replied the lady; ‘when I leave Rose.’ ’You will tell her I am here?’ said Harry. Of course...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 03:15

... and reason in its course. You recovered. Day by day, and almost hour by hour, some drop of health came back, and mingling with the spent and feeble stream of life which circulated languidly ... the doctor. ‘Blathers and Duff, themselves, could make nothing of it.’ Notwithstanding the evidently useless nature of their search, they did not desist until the coming on of night...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 03:15