日期：2009-10-08 INASMUCH as I was now the second personage in the Kingdom, as far as political power and authorty were concerned, much was made of me. My raiment was of silks and velvets and cloth of gold, and by consequence was very showy, also uncomfortable. But... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-10-08 Chapter 6 - The Eclipse IN the stillness and the darkness, realization soon began to supplement knowledge. The mere knowledge of a fact is pale; but when you come to REALIZE your fact, it takes on color. It is all the difference between hearing of a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-10-08 Chapter 5 - An Inspiration I WAS so tired that even my fears were not able to keep me awake long. When I next came to myself, I seemed to have been asleep a very long time. My first thought was, Well, what an astonishing dream I've had! I reckon I'v... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-10-08 IT seemed to me that this quaint lie was most simply and beautifully told; but then I had heard it only once, and that makes a difference; it was pleasant to the others when it was fresh, no doubt. Sir Dinadan the Humorist was the first to awake, an... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-10-08 MAINLY the Round Table talk was monologues -- narrative accounts of the adventures in which these prisoners were captured and their friends and backers killed and stripped of their steeds and armor. As a general thing -- as far as I could make out -... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-10-08 THE moment I got a chance I slipped aside privately and touched an ancient common looking man on the shoulder and said, in an insinuating, confidential way: Friend, do me a kindness. Do you belong to the asylum, or are you just on a visit or somethi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-10-08 CAMELOT -- Camelot, said I to myself. I don't seem to remember hearing of it before. Name of the asylum, likely. It was a soft, reposeful summer landscape, as lovely as a dream, and as lonesome as Sunday. The air was full of the smell of flowers, an... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-10-08 THE ungentle laws and customs touched upon in this tale are historical, and the episodes which are used to illustrate them are also historical. It is not pretended that these laws and customs existed in England in the sixth century; no, it is only p... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-10-08 THE first time I catched Tom private I asked him what was his idea, time of the evasion? -- what it was he'd planned to do if the evasion worked all right and he managed to set a nigger free that was already free before? And he said, what he had pla... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-10-08 THE old man was uptown again before breakfast, but couldn't get no track of Tom; and both of them set at the table thinking, and not saying nothing, and looking mournful, and their coffee getting cold, and not eating anything. And by and by the old... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-10-08 THE doctor was an old man; a very nice, kind-looking old man when I got him up. I told him me and my brother was over on Spanish Island hunting yesterday afternoon, and camped on a piece of a raft we found, and about midnight he must a kicked his gu... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-10-08 WE was feeling pretty good after breakfast, and took my canoe and went over the river a-fishing, with a lunch, and had a good time, and took a look at the raft and found her all right, and got home late to supper, and found them in such a sweat and... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-10-08 IN the morning we went up to the village and bought a wire rat-trap and fetched it down, and unstopped the best rat-hole, and in about an hour we had fifteen of the bulliest kind of ones; and then we took it and put it in a safe place under Aunt Sal... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-10-08 MAKING them pens was a distressid tough job, and so was the saw; and Jim allowed the inscription was going to be the toughest of all. That's the one which the prisoner has to scrabble on the wall. But he had to have it; Tom said he'd GOT to; there w... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-10-08 THAT was all fixed. So then we went away and went to the rubbage-pile in the back yard, where they keep the old boots, and rags, and pieces of bottles, and wore-out tin things, and all such truck, and scratched around and found an old tin washpan, a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-10-08 AS soon as we reckoned everybody was asleep that night we went down the lightning-rod, and shut ourselves up in the lean-to, and got out our pile of fox-fire, and went to work. We cleared everything out of the way, about four or five foot along the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-10-08 IT would be most an hour yet till breakfast, so we left and struck down into the woods; because Tom said we got to have SOME light to see how to dig by, and a lantern makes too much, and might get us into trouble; what we must have was a lot of them... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-10-08 WE stopped talking, and got to thinking. By and by Tom says: Looky here, Huck, what fools we are to not think of it before! I bet I know where Jim is. No! Where? In that hut down by the ash-hopper. Why, looky here. When we was at dinner, didn't you... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-10-08 SO I started for town in the wagon, and when I was half-way I see a wagon coming, and sure enough it was Tom Sawyer, and I stopped and waited till he come along. I says Hold on! and it stopped alongside, and his mouth opened up like a trunk, and sta... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-10-08 WHEN I got there it was all still and Sunday-like, and hot and sunshiny; the hands was gone to the fields; and there was them kind of faint dronings of bugs and flies in the air that makes it seem so lonesome and like everybody's dead and gone; and... 阅读全文>>