日期：2024-08-02 VII Joanna Southwood said: And suppose hes a terrible tough? Linnet shook her head. Oh, he wont be. I can trust Jacquelines taste. Joanna murmured: Ah, but people dont run true to form in love affairs. Linnet shook her head impatiently. Then she cha... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-02 VI M. Gaston Blondin, the proprietor of that modish little restaurant Chez Ma Tante, was not a manwho delighted to honour many of his clientle. The rich, the beautiful, the notorious, and the well-born might wait in vain to be singled out and paid s... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-02 IV Lord Windlesham sat under the cedar tree. His eyes rested on the graceful proportions of WodeHall. There was nothing to mar its old-world beauty; the new buildings and additions were out ofsight round the corner. It was a fair and peaceful sight... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-02 VIt was four oclock when the dilapidated little two-seater stopped with a sound of crunchinggravel. A girl got out of ita small slender creature with a mop of dark hair. She ran up the stepsand tugged at the bell. A few minutes later she was being u... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-02 III The Hon. Joanna Southwood said: Darling, I think its going to be all perfectly marvellous! She was sitting in Linnet Ridgeways bedroom at Wode Hall. From the window the eye passed over the gardens to open country with blue shadows ofwoodlands. I... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-02 II Extract from the Social column of the Daily Blague. Among those supping at Chez Ma Tante I noticed beautiful Linnet Ridgeway. Shewas with the Hon. Joanna Southwood, Lord Windlesham and Mr. Toby Bryce. Miss Ridgeway, as everyone knows, is the daug... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-02 One I Linnet Ridgeway! Thats her! said Mr. Burnaby, the landlord of the Three Crowns. He nudged his companion. The two men stared with round bucolic eyes and slightly open mouths. A big scarlet Rolls-Royce had just stopped in front of the local post... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-04-19 82 Weeks later Silo 18 The three of them sat around the conference table, Juliette adjusting the gauze bandage on her hand tocover the raised lace of scar tissue peeking out. The overalls theyd given her were loose to minimizethe pain, but the under... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-04-19 81 Silo 18 Awareness, like sporadic jolts of pain from her burns, came and went. Juliette remembered a billowing fog, boots stomping all around her, lying on her side in the ovenof an airlock. She watched the way the world warped out of shape as her... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-04-19 80 Juliette made her way through the airlock doors and up the ramp, ignoring the dead around her, justfocusing on each step, and the hardest part was over. The rest was open space and the scatteredremains she wished she could pretend were boulders.... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-04-19 79 Silo 17 Juliette woke up on a floor, someone shaking her. A man with a beard. It was Solo, and she waspassed out in his room, by his desk. We made it, he said, flashing his yellow teeth. He looked better than she remembered himlooking. More alive... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-04-19 78 Silo 18 A group of kids thundered down the staircase as Lukas was escorted to his death. One of themsquealed in delighted horror as if being chased. They spiraled closer, coming into view, and Lukasand Peter had to squeeze to one side to let them... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-04-19 77 Silo 17 Hello? Walk? Shirly? Juliette shouted into the radio, the orphans and Solo watching her from several steps below. Shehad hurried the kids through the farms, made hasty introductions, checking the radio all the while. Several levels had go... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-04-19 76 Silo 18 Lukas teetered on the upturned trash can, the toes of his boots denting the soft plastic, feeling as if itcould go flying out from under him or collapse under his weight at any moment. He steadied himselfby holding the top of server twelv... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-04-19 75 Silo 18 What happened? Why arent they responding? Courtnee looked from Walker to Shirly, as if eitherof them could know. Is it broken? Shirly picked up the small dial with the painted marks and tried to tell if it hadaccidentally moved. Walk, did... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-04-19 74 Silo 17 Juliette shivered from the cold as she helped Solo to his feet. He wobbled and steadied himself, bothhands on the railing. Do you think you can walk? she asked. She kept an eye on the empty stairs spiraling downtoward them, wary of whoeve... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-04-19 73 Silo 18 Lukas couldnt force himself to study, not what he was supposed to be studying. The Order satflopped open on the wooden desk, the little lamp on its thousand-jointed neck bent over and warmingit in a pool of light. He stood before the wall... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-04-19 72 Silo 17 The water inside the suit was freezing, the air cold, the combination lethal. Juliettes teeth chatterednoisily while she worked the knife. She slid the blade into the soggy skin of the suit, the feeling ofhaving already been here, having... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-04-19 71 Silo 18 The door to the generator room slammed shut behind her, dulling the patter of gunfire to a distanthammering. Shirly ran toward the control room on sore legs, ignoring her friends and coworkersasking her what was going on outside. They cow... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-04-19 70 Silo 18 The pot on the stove bubbled noisily, steam rising off the surface, tiny drops of water leaping to theirfreedom over the edge. Lukas shook a pinch of tea leaves out of the resealable tin and into the tinystrainer. His hands were shaking a... 阅读全文>>