日期：2020-04-20 I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman with fiery red hair. With an apology for my intrusion, I was about to withdraw... 阅读全文>>

日期：2020-04-20 I slept at Baker Street that night, and we were engaged upon our toast and coffee in the morning when the King of Bohemia rushed into the room. You have really got it! he cried, grasping Sherlock Holmes by either shoulder and looking eagerly into hi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2020-04-20 I. To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions,... 阅读全文>>

日期：2020-04-20 At three oclock precisely I was at Baker Street, but Holmes had not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the house shortly after eight oclock in the morning. I sat down beside the fire, however, with the intention of awaiting him,... 阅读全文>>

日期：2020-03-16 No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy would have supposed her born to be an heroine. Her situation in life, the character of her father and mother, her own person and disposition, were all equally against her. Her father was a cl... 阅读全文>>

日期：2020-03-16 Catherine was not so much engaged at the theatre that evening, in returning the nods and smiles of Miss Thorpe, though they certainly claimed much of her leisure, as to forget to look with an inquiring eye for Mr. Tilney in every box which her eye c... 阅读全文>>

日期：2020-03-16 With more than usual eagerness did Catherine hasten to the pump-room the next day, secure within herself of seeing Mr. Tilney there before the morning were over, and ready to meet him with a smile; but no smile was demandedMr. Tilney did not appear.... 阅读全文>>

日期：2020-03-16 Every morning now brought its regular dutiesshops were to be visited; some new part of the town to be looked at; and the pump-room to be attended, where they paraded up and down for an hour, looking at everybody and speaking to no one. The wish of a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2020-03-16 In addition to what has been already said of Catherine Morlands personal and mental endowments, when about to be launched into all the difficulties and dangers of a six weeks residence in Bath, it may be stated, for the readers more certain informat... 阅读全文>>

日期：2020-03-16 Mr. and Mrs. Morlands surprise on being applied to by Mr. Tilney for their consent to his marrying their daughter was, for a few minutes, considerable, it having never entered their heads to suspect an attachment on either side; but as nothing, afte... 阅读全文>>

日期：2020-03-16 Catherine was too wretched to be fearful. The journey in itself had no terrors for her; and she began it without either dreading its length or feeling its solitariness. Leaning back in one corner of the carriage, in a violent burst of tears, she was... 阅读全文>>

日期：2020-03-16 Catherines disposition was not naturally sedentary, nor had her habits been ever very industrious; but whatever might hitherto have been her defects of that sort, her mother could not but perceive them now to be greatly increased. She could neither... 阅读全文>>

日期：2020-03-16 The next morning brought the following very unexpected letter from Isabella: Bath, April My dearest Catherine, I received your two kind letters with the greatest delight, and have a thousand apologies to make for not answering them sooner. I really... 阅读全文>>

日期：2020-03-16 Soon after this, the general found himself obliged to go to London for a week; and he left Northanger earnestly regretting that any necessity should rob him even for an hour of Miss Morlands company, and anxiously recommending the study of her comfo... 阅读全文>>

日期：2020-03-16 From this time, the subject was frequently canvassed by the three young people; and Catherine found, with some surprise, that her two young friends were perfectly agreed in considering Isabellas want of consequence and fortune as likely to throw gre... 阅读全文>>

日期：2020-03-16 The visions of romance were over. Catherine was completely awakened. Henrys address, short as it had been, had more thoroughly opened her eyes to the extravagance of her late fancies than all their several disappointments had done. Most grievously w... 阅读全文>>

日期：2020-03-16 The next day afforded no opportunity for the proposed examination of the mysterious apartments. It was Sunday, and the whole time between morning and afternoon service was required by the general in exercise abroad or eating cold meat at home; and g... 阅读全文>>

日期：2020-03-16 An hour passed away before the general came in, spent, on the part of his young guest, in no very favourable consideration of his character. This lengthened absence, these solitary rambles, did not speak a mind at ease, or a conscience void of repro... 阅读全文>>

日期：2020-03-16 The housemaids folding back her window-shutters at eight oclock the next day was the sound which first roused Catherine; and she opened her eyes, wondering that they could ever have been closed, on objects of cheerfulness; her fire was already burni... 阅读全文>>

日期：2020-03-16 A moments glance was enough to satisfy Catherine that her apartment was very unlike the one which Henry had endeavoured to alarm her by the description of. It was by no means unreasonably large, and contained neither tapestry nor velvet. The walls w... 阅读全文>>