20-05-19 We were as good as our word, for it was just seven when we reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside public-house. The group of trees, with their dark leaves shining like burnished metal in the light of the setting sun, were su...

20-05-19 I was so terrified that I do not know what I did. I suppose that I must have rushed past him into my room. I remember nothing until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer w...

20-05-19 And now I have a very strange experience to tell you. I had, as you know, cut off my hair in London, and I had placed it in a great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the child was in bed, I began to amuse myself by examining the fur...

20-05-19 At least, said I as we heard her quick, firm steps descending the stairs, she seems to be a young lady who is very well able to take care of herself. And she would need to be, said Holmes gravely. I am much mistaken if we do not hear from her before...

20-05-19 Well, Mr. Holmes, when I got back to my lodgings and found little enough in the cupboard, and two or three bills upon the table. I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very foolish thing. After all, if these people had strange fads and expec...

20-05-19 It was dated from Montague Place upon the preceding evening, and ran thus: DEAR MR. HOLMES:--I am very anxious to consult you as to whether I should or should not accept a situation which has been offered to me as governess. I shall call at half-pas...

20-05-19 To the man who loves art for its own sake, remarked Sherlock Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily Telegraph, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is...

20-05-18 But almost immediately I ran into a new danger. 几乎是在同时，我又碰到了新的危险。 As I ran, I heard some small stones falling from the side of a steep hill. 在我跑的时候，我听见许多石块从陡峭的山坡上纷纷落下。 I stopped to look round, and saw a fig...

20-05-14 Next morning, there was no wind and we were half a mile from the eastern coast of the island． 第二天早晨，一丝风都没有，我们距离岛的东岸还有半英里。 Although the sun shone bright and hot, I hated the thought of Treasure Is－land,afraid of what woul...

20-05-13 by Wilkie Collins Shortly after my education at college was finished, I happened to be staying at Paris with an English friend. We were both young men then, and lived, I am afraid, rather a wild life, in the delightful city of our sojourn. One night...