日期:2014-09-11 The result of all this on Clyde was to cause him to think more specifically on the problem of the sexes than heever had before, and by no means in any orthodox way. For while he condemned his sister's lover for thusruthlessly deserting her, still he... 阅读全文>>

日期:2014-09-11 For a period of four months at least this was exactly the way it worked out. After meeting her in this fashion, hewas devoting not an inconsiderable portion of his free time to attempting to interest her to the point where shewould take as much inte... 阅读全文>>

日期:2014-09-11 Now trivial as this contact may seem to some, it was of the utmost significance to Clyde. Up to this time he hadnever seen a girl with so much charm who would deign to look at him, or so he imagined. And now he had foundone, and she was pretty and a... 阅读全文>>

日期:2014-09-11 The effect of this adventure on Clyde was such as might have been expected in connection with one so new andstrange to such a world as this. In spite of all that deep and urgent curiosity and desire that had eventually ledhim to that place and cause... 阅读全文>>

日期:2014-09-05 Prepared as Clyde was to dislike all this, so steeped had he been in the moods and maxims antipathetic toanything of its kind, still so innately sensual and romantic was his own disposition and so starved where sex was concerned, that instead of bei... 阅读全文>>

日期:2014-09-05 And so the interesting dinner, with Clyde attending, came to pass. And it was partaken of at Frissell's, as Rattererhad said. And by now Clyde, having come to be on genial terms with all of these youths, was in the gayest ofmoods about it all. Think... 阅读全文>>

日期:2014-09-05 The thing that most interested Clyde at first was how, if at all, he was to keep the major portion of all this moneyhe was making for himself. For ever since he had been working and earning money, it had been assumed that hewould contribute a fair p... 阅读全文>>

日期:2014-09-05 And so, of all the influences which might have come to Clyde at this time, either as an aid or an injury to hisdevelopment, perhaps the most dangerous for him, considering his temperament, was this same Green-Davidson,than which no more materially a... 阅读全文>>

日期:2014-09-05 And as conditions stood, the extraordinary economic and social inexperience of the Griffiths -- Asa and Elvira-dovetailedall too neatly with his dreams. For neither Asa nor Elvira had the least knowledge of the actualcharacter of the work upon which... 阅读全文>>

日期:2014-09-05 The imaginative flights of Clyde in connection with all this -- his dreams of what it might mean for him to beconnected with so glorious an institution -- can only be suggested. For his ideas of luxury were in the main soextreme and mistaken and gau... 阅读全文>>

日期:2014-09-05 The effect of this particular conclusion was to cause Clyde to think harder than ever about himself. And theprincipal result of his thinking was that he must do something for himself and soon. Up to this time the best hehad been able to do was to wo... 阅读全文>>

日期:2014-09-05 One of the things that served to darken Clyde's mood just about the time when he was seeking some practicalsolution for himself, to say nothing of its profoundly disheartening effect on the Griffiths family as a whole, wasthe fact that his sister Es... 阅读全文>>

日期:2014-09-05 That such a family, thus cursorily presented, might have a different and somewhat peculiar history could well beanticipated, and it would be true. Indeed, this one presented one of those anomalies of psychic and social reflexand motivation such as w... 阅读全文>>

日期:2014-09-05 Dusk -- of a summer night. And the tall walls of the commercial heart of an American city of perhaps 400,000 inhabitants -- such walls as intime may linger as a mere fable. And up the broad street, now comparatively hushed, a little band of six, --... 阅读全文>>

日期:2014-09-05 Chapter 5 David comes home We decided that Alan would stay hidden in the fields, while I walked to Queensferry to find Mr Rankeillor. Alan promised not to come out until he heard me return. In order to be sure that it was me, he taught me to whistle... 阅读全文>>

日期:2014-09-05 Chapter 4 Escape through the heather We had no time for conversation. Come! Alan said,and started running along the side of the hill, keeping low to the ground. I followed him like a sheep. We ran and ran, faster than I had ever run before, and my h... 阅读全文>>

日期:2014-09-05 Chapter 3 David is alone It was a cold night, so I could not sit down to rest. In stead, I walked up and down on the beach, trying to keep warm. There was no sound except the crash of the waves. I felt very lonely and afraid. In the morning I climbe... 阅读全文>>

日期:2014-09-05 Chapter 2 Kidnapped When I woke up in darkness, my head was hurting badly, and I was unable to move my hands or feet. I could hear the sailors shouts and the sound of the wind and the waves. The whole world seemed to go up, up, up, and then down aga... 阅读全文>>

日期:2014-09-04 Chapter 1 David meets his uncle It was early in the month of June, 1751, when I shut the door of our house behind me for the last time. All my life I had lived in the quiet little village of Essendean, in the Lowlands of Scotland, where my father ha... 阅读全文>>

日期:2014-09-04 Some detachments rapped at each door, then disappeared into the houses. It was occupation after invasion. Then the duty commences for the conquered to show themselves gracious toward the conquerors. After some time, as soon as the first terror disap... 阅读全文>>

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