ON THE 3RD OF MARCH all the rooms of the English Club were full of the hum of voices, and the members and guests of the club, in uniforms and frock-coats, some even in powder and R...
IN THE HIGHER CIRCLES in Petersburg the intricate conflict between the parties of Rumyantsev, of the French, of Marya Fyodorovna, of the Tsarevitch, and the rest was going on all t...
Book 12 Chapter 1(彼得堡高层的权力斗争与宫廷生活):彼得堡上流社会正经历着激烈的权力斗争,鲁缅采夫派、法国派、玛丽亚·费奥多罗夫娜皇后派与皇太子派之间的角力愈演愈烈,而宫廷生活依旧沉浸在奢靡虚幻中,对俄罗斯人民面临的真实危险漠不关心。安娜·帕夫洛夫娜的晚会上,众人假装关切别祖霍娃伯爵夫人的病情(实因重婚引发的丑闻),却更热衷讨论维也纳外交照...
The phantoms, for so they then seemed, were flitting on the other side of the deck, and, with a noiseless celerity, were casting loose the tackles and bands of the boat which swung...
Night ThoughtsYet Julia’s very coldness still was kind, And tremulously gentleher small hand Withdrew itself from his, but left behind A littlepressure, thrilling, and so bland And...
It was late in a drizzly afternoon that a traveler alighted at the door of a small country hotel, in the village of N—-, in Kentucky. — 在一个下着蒙蒙细雨的傍晚,一位旅行者抵达了肯塔基州N村一个小乡村旅馆的门口。 — ...