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《A Millionaire of Yesterday》Chapter 16
E. Phillips Oppenheim A Millionaire of Yesterday whodunit
2008/6/6
Ernestine Wendermott travelled back to London in much discomfort, being the eleventh occupant of a third-class carriage in a particularly unpunctual and dilatory train. Arrived at Waterloo, she shook ...
《A Millionaire of Yesterday》Chapter 17
E. Phillips Oppenheim A Millionaire of Yesterday whodunit
2008/6/6
"Ernestine," he said gravely, "I am going to speak to you about your father!"
She looked up at him in swift surprise.
"Is it necessary?"
"I think so," he answered. "You won't like what I'm...
《A Millionaire of Yesterday》Chapter 18
E. Phillips Oppenheim A Millionaire of Yesterday whodunit
2008/6/6
Dinner at the Lodge that night was not a very lively affair. Trent had great matters in his brain and was not in the least disposed to make conversation for the sake of his unbidden guests. Da Souza's...
《A Millionaire of Yesterday》Chapter 21
E. Phillips Oppenheim A Millionaire of Yesterday whodunit
2008/6/6
Ernestine was a delightful hostess, she loved situations, and her social tact was illimitable. In a few minutes Trent was seated in a comfortable and solid chair with a little round table by his side,...
《A Millionaire of Yesterday》Chapter 23
E. Phillips Oppenheim A Millionaire of Yesterday whodunit
2008/6/6
After six weeks' incessant throbbing the great engines were still, and the Dunottar Castle lay at anchor a mile or two from the African coast and off the town of Attra. The heat, which in motion had b...
《A Millionaire of Yesterday》Chapter 26
E. Phillips Oppenheim A Millionaire of Yesterday whodunit
2008/6/6
It was Trent himself who kept watch through that last long hour of moonlit darkness till the wan morning broke. With its faint, grey streaks came the savages of Bekwando, crawling up in a semicircle t...
《A Millionaire of Yesterday》Chapter 27
E. Phillips Oppenheim A Millionaire of Yesterday whodunit
2008/6/6
A fortnight afterwards Trent rode into Attra, pale, gaunt, and hollow-eyed. The whole history of those days would never be known by another man! Upon Trent they had left their mark for ever. Every ho...
《A Millionaire of Yesterday》Chapter 28
E. Phillips Oppenheim A Millionaire of Yesterday whodunit
2008/6/6
It was then perhaps that Trent fought the hardest battle of his life. The start was made with only a dozen Kru boys, Trent himself, stripped to the shirt, labouring amongst them spade in hand. In a we...
《A Millionaire of Yesterday》Chapter 29
E. Phillips Oppenheim A Millionaire of Yesterday whodunit
2008/6/6
The attack was a fiasco, the fighting was all over in ten minutes. A hundred years ago the men of Bekwando, who went naked and knew no drink more subtle than palm wine had one virtue - bravery. But ci...
《A Millionaire of Yesterday》Chapter 30
E. Phillips Oppenheim A Millionaire of Yesterday whodunit
2008/6/6
MY DEAR AUNT ERNIE, - At last I have a chance of sending you a letter - and, this time at any rate, you won't have to complain about my sending you no news. I'll promise you that, before I begin, and ...
《A Millionaire of Yesterday》Chapter 32
E. Phillips Oppenheim A Millionaire of Yesterday whodunit
2008/6/6
You are very smart, Ernestine," he said, looking her admiringly.
"One must be smart at Ascot," she answered, "or stay away."
"I've just heard some news," he continued.
"Yes?"
"Who do y...
《A Millionaire of Yesterday》Chapter 33
E. Phillips Oppenheim A Millionaire of Yesterday whodunit
2008/6/6
Trent had done many brave things in his life, but he had never been conscious of such a distinct thrill of nervousness as he experienced during those few minutes' silence. Ernestine, for her part, was...
《A Millionaire of Yesterday》Chapter 34
E. Phillips Oppenheim A Millionaire of Yesterday whodunit
2008/6/6
"And now," she said, rising, "you really must take me to Lady Tresham! They will think that I am lost."
"Are you still at your rooms?" he asked.
She nodded.
"Yes, only I'm having them spri...
《A Millionaire of Yesterday》Chapter 15
E. Phillips Oppenheim A Millionaire of Yesterday whodunit
2008/6/6
Probably nothing else in the world could so soon have transformed Scarlett Trent from the Gold Coast buccaneer to the law-abiding tenant of a Surrey villa. Before her full, inquiring eyes and calm sal...
《A Millionaire of Yesterday》Chapter 35
E. Phillips Oppenheim A Millionaire of Yesterday whodunit
2008/6/6
Da Souza's office was neither furnished nor located with the idea of impressing casual visitors. It was in a back-street off an alley, and although within a stone's throw of Lothbury its immediate sur...