"I do not remember very much more about that day, except that the sun seemed to have stopped shining and the country no longer looked beautiful and full of promise, but bleak and desolate as it someti...
She paused, as though she did not quite know how to begin. Then she seemed to give herself, mentally, a little shake. "You must have wondered ", she said, "why I was so upset at the thought of young G...
As I grew older I found, rather to my surprise, that I had become genuinely fond of my aloof old great-aunt. But to this day I do not know what strange impulse made me take George to see her and to te...
I was always a little in awe of Great-aunt Stephina Roos. Indeed, as children we were all frankly terrified of her. The fact that she did not live with the family, preferring her tiny cottage and soli...
"We loved one another from the first moment we met, though we did not speak of our love until the evening of my eighteenth birthday. All our friends and relatives had come to my party, and in the even...
After that I would often slip away to the little cottage by the mealie lands. Once she was somewhat disappointed on hearing that we had decided to wait for two years before getting married, but when s...
Tante Sanna would bring in dishes of sweet, sweet, sticky candy, or a great bowl of grapes or peaches, and Great-aunt Stephina would converse gravely about happenings on the farm ,and, more rarely, of...
The Love letter 迟到的情书 I was always a little in awe of Great-aunt Stephina Roos. Indeed, as children we were all frankly terrified of her. The fact that she did not live with the family, pref...
鼠标悬停在加粗部分，会显示相应词义和讲解哦！ He found it a lot harder to concentrate on drills that afternoon and when he left the building at five o'clock, he was still so worri...
鼠标悬停在加粗部分，会显示相应词义和讲解哦！ He'd forgotten all about the people in cloaks until he passed a group of them next to the baker's. He eyed them angrily as he passed....
鼠标悬停在加粗部分，会显示相应词义和讲解哦！ But on the edge of town, drills were driven out of his mind by something else. As he sat in the usual morning traffic jam, he couldn'...
鼠标悬停在加粗部分，会显示相应词义和讲解哦！ When Mr. and Mrs. Dursley woke up on the dull, gray Tuesday our story starts, there was nothing about the cloudy sky outside to sugge...
鼠标悬停在加粗部分，会显示相应词义和讲解哦！ Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were...
My dreams are worthless, my plans are dust, my goals are impossible. All are of no value unless they are followed by action. I will act now. Never has there been a map, however carefully executed to d...
Today I will multiply my value a hundredfold. A mulberry leaf touched with the genius of man becomes silk. A field of clay touched with the genius of man becomes a castle. A Cyprus tree touched with t...
