After being absent from theGables for a week, my aunt unexpectedly returned one afternoon with a party ofgues... [查看全文]
Aunt Harriet could not findwords to praise Bessie's industriousness and efficiency. In addition to all her... [查看全文]
While she always criticizedthe fickleness of human nature, she carried on an unrelenting search for the ideals... [查看全文]
Aunt Harriet presided over an invisible army of servants that continuouslyscrubbed, cleaned, and polished. She ... [查看全文]
I often visited TheGables when I was a boy. No matter how many guests were present, the great housewas alwa... [查看全文]
She had a huge,rambling country house called 'The Gables'. She was sentimentally attached to thishouse,... [查看全文]
The Ideal Servant 理想的仆人 It is a good thing my aunt Harriet died years ago. If she were alive today ... [查看全文]
The most frightening thing ofall was that not a sound could be heard. There was no doubt that we were unwe... [查看全文]
Faces appeared at windows. Men in shirt sleeves stood outside their houses andglared at us. Old women in bla... [查看全文]
I concluded that they were simply shy ofstrangers. When we later walked down the main street of the village,... [查看全文]