日期：2023-06-26 CHAPTER VII Well, Fanny, and how do you like Miss Crawford _now_? said Edmund the next day, after thinking some time on the subject himself. How did you like her yesterday? Very well--very much. I like to hear her talk. She entertains me; and she is... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-06-26 CHAPTER VI Mr. Bertram set off for--------, and Miss Crawford was prepared to find a great chasm in their society, and to miss him decidedly in the meetings which were now becoming almost daily between the families; and on their all dining together... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-06-26 CHAPTER V The young people were pleased with each other from the first. On each side there was much to attract, and their acquaintance soon promised as early an intimacy as good manners would warrant. Miss Crawfords beauty did her no disservice with... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-06-26 CHAPTER IV Tom Bertram had of late spent so little of his time at home that he could be only nominally missed; and Lady Bertram was soon astonished to find how very well they did even without his father, how well Edmund could supply his place in car... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-06-26 CHAPTER III The first event of any importance in the family was the death of Mr. Norris, which happened when Fanny was about fifteen, and necessarily introduced alterations and novelties. Mrs. Norris, on quitting the Parsonage, removed first to the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-06-26 CHAPTER II The little girl performed her long journey in safety; and at Northampton was met by Mrs. Norris, who thus regaled in the credit of being foremost to welcome her, and in the importance of leading her in to the others, and recommending her... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-06-26 CHAPTER I About thirty years ago Miss Maria Ward, of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronets... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-06-26 Chapter 100 Mr. Okamoto, in his letter to me, recalled the interrogation as having been difficult and memorable. He remembered Piscine Molitor Patel as being very thin, very tough, very bright. His report, in its essential part, ran as follows: Sole... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-06-26 Chapter 99 Mr. Okamoto: Mr. Patel, we dont believe your story. Sorry - these cookies are good but they tend to crumble. Im amazed. Why not? It doesnt hold up. What do you mean? Bananas dont float. Im sorry? You said the orang-utan came floating on a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-06-26 Chapter 98 Mr. Okamoto: Very interesting. Mr. Chiba: What a story. [translation]He thinks were fools.[/translation] Mr. Patel, well take a little break and then well come back, yes? Thats fine. Id like another cookie. Yes, of course. Mr. Chiba: [tra... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-06-26 Chapter 97 The story. 第九十七章 故事。... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-06-26 Chapter 96 Hello, Mr. Patel. My name is Tomohiro Okamoto. I am from the Maritime Department in the Japanese Ministry of Transport. This is my assistant, Atsuro Chiba. We have come to see you about the sinking of the ship Tsimtsum, of which you were... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-06-26 Chapter 95 Mr. Tomohiro Okamoto, of the Maritime Department in the Japanese Ministry of Transport, now retired, told me that he and his junior colleague at the time, Mr. Atsuro Chiba, were in Long Beach, California - the American western seaboards m... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-06-26 Chapter 94 When we reached land, Mexico to be exact, I was so weak I barely had the strength to be happy about it. We had great difficulty landing. The lifeboat nearly capsized in the surf. I streamed the sea anchors - what was left of them - full o... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-06-26 Chapter 93 I grew weary of my situation, as pointless as the weather. But life would not leave me. The rest of this story is nothing but grief, ache and endurance. High calls low and low calls high. I tell you, if you were in such dire straits as I... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-06-26 Chapter 92 I made an exceptional botanical discovery. But there will be many who disbelieve the following episode. Still, I give it to you now because its part of the story and it happened to me. I was on my side. It was an hour or two past noon on... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-06-26 Chapter 91 I climbed aboard my brothers boat. With my hands I explored it. I found he had lied to me. He had a little turtle meat, a dorado head, and even - a supreme treat - some biscuit crumbs. And he had water. It all went into my mouth. I return... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-05-31 Chapter 90 I said, Richard Parker, is something wrong? Have you gone blind? as I waved my hand in his face. For a day or two he had been rubbing his eyes and meowing disconsolately, but I thought nothing of it. Aches and pains were the only part of... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-05-31 Chapter 89 Everything suffered. Everything became sun-bleached and weather-beaten. The lifeboat, the raft until it was lost, the tarpaulin, the stills, the rain catchers, the plastic bags, the lines, the blankets, the net - all became worn, stretche... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-05-31 Chapter 88 One day we came upon trash. First the water glistened with patches of oil. Coming up soon after was the domestic and industrial waste: mainly plastic refuse in a variety of forms and colours, but also pieces of lumber, beer cans, wine bot... 阅读全文>>