日期：2023-10-08 CHAPTER 6 Hundreds of People THE quiet lodgings of Doctor Manette were in a quiet street-corner not far from Soho-square. On the afternoon of a certain fine Sunday when the waves of four months had rolled over the trial for treason, and carried it,... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-10-08 CHAPTER 5 The Jackal THOSE were drinking days, and moot men drank hard. So very great is the improvement Time has brought about in such habits, that a moderate statement of the quantity of wine and punch which one man would swallow in the course of... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-10-08 CHAPTER 4 Congratulatory FROM the dimly-lighted passages of the court, the last sediment of the human stew that had been boiling there all day, was straining off, when Doctor Manette, Lucie Manette, his daughter, Mr. Lorry, the solicitor for the def... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-10-08 CHAPTER 3 A Disappointment MR. ATTORNEY-GENERAL had to inform the jury, that the prisoner before them, though young in years, was old in the treasonable practices which claimed the forfeit of his life. That this correspondence with the public enemy... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-10-08 CHAPTER 2 A Sight `YOU know the Old Bailey well, no doubt? said one of the oldest of clerks to Jerry the messenger. `Ye-es, sir, returned Jerry, in something of a dogged manner. `I do know the Bailey. `Just so. And you know Mr. Lorry. `I know Mr. Lo... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-10-08 BOOK THE SECOND THE GOLDEN THREAD CHAPTER I Five Years Later TELLSONS Bank by Temple Bar was an old-fashioned place, even in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty. It was very small, very dark, very ugly, very incommodious. It was an old-fa... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-10-08 CHAPTER 6 The Shoemaker `GOOD DAY! said Monsieur Defarge, looking down at he white head that bent low over the shoemaking. It was raised for a moment, and a very faint voice responded to the salutation, as if it were at a distance: `Good day! `You a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-10-08 CHAPTER 5 The Wine-shop A LARGE cask of wine had been dropped and broken, street. The accident had happened in getting it out of a cart; the cask had tumbled out with a run, the hoops had burst, and it lay on the stones just outside the door of the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-10-08 CHAPTER 4 The Preparation WHEN the mail got successfully to Dover, in the course of the forenoon, the head drawer at the Royal George Hotel opened the coach-door as his custom was. He did it with some flourish of ceremony, for a mail journey from Lo... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-10-08 CHAPTER 3 The Night Shadows Wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clus... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-10-08 CHAPTER II The Mail It was the Dover road that lay, on a Friday night late in November, before the first of the persons with whom this history has business. The Dover road lay, as to him, beyond the Dover mail, as it lumbered up Shooters Hill. He wa... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-10-08 BOOK THE FIRST RECALLED TO LIFE CHAPTER 1 The Period It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Ligh... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-09-12 27 Hercule Poirot sat in a big armchair. The wall lights had been turned out. Only a rose-shaded lamp shed its glow on the figure in the armchair. There seemed something symbolic about it - he alone in the light - and the other three, Sir Charles, Mr... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-09-12 26 Poirot did not have quite the uninterrupted twenty-four hours for which he had stipulated. At twenty minutes past eleven on the following morning Egg walked in unannounced. To her amazement she found the great detective engaged in building card ho... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-09-12 25 Before catching their train Hercule Poirot and Mr. Satterthwaite had had a brief interview with Miss Lyndon, the late Sir Bartholomew Stranges secretary. Miss Lyndon had been very willing to help, but had had nothing of important to tell them. Mrs... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-09-12 24 At once an excited discussion sprang up. An ABC was produced. It was decided that an early train would be better than going by car. At last, said Sir Charles, were going to get that particular part of the mystery cleared up. What do you think of t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-09-12 23 Sitting in a comfortable armchair in his slightly florid suite at the Ritz, Hercule Poirot listened. Egg was perched on the arm of a chair, Sir Charles stood in front of the fireplace, Mr. Satterthwaite sat a little farther away observing the grou... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-09-12 22 At the office of Messrs. Speier Ross, Mr. Satterthwaite asked for Mr. Oliver Manders and sent in his card. Presently he was ushered into a small room, where Oliver was sitting at a writing-table. The young man got up and shook hands. Good of you t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-09-12 21 Five Upper Cathcart Road, Tooting, seemed an incongruous home for a satiric playwright. The room into which Sir Charles was shown had walls of a rather drab oatmeal colour with a frieze of laburnum round the top. The curtains were of rose-coloured... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-09-12 20 Now, are you a friend or are you a sleuth? I simply must know. Miss Sutcliffe flashed a pair of mocking eyes as she spoke. She was sitting in a straight-backed chair, her grey hair becomingly arranged, her legs were crossed and Mr. Satterthwaite a... 阅读全文>>