Dudley's mouth fell open in horror but Harry's heart gave a leap. Every year on Dudley's birthday his parents took him and a friend out for the day, to adventure parks, hamburger bars or the cinema. Every year, Harry was left behind with Mrs Figg, a mad old lady who lived two ...
beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. ” This is dedicated to my first-year self four years ago, who was addicted to getting good grades, and failed to seek the happiness found in everything els...
year for nineteen years.The first Saturday there was twenty-seven of us, without counting the girls;there's only three of us now, and the girls are gone.We drug him to sleep, or he would go wild;then he's all right for another year—thinks she’s with him till the last three or...
Thus did the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five conduct their Greatnesses, and myriads of small creatures-the creatures of this chronicle among the rest-along the roads that lay before them. II The Mail It was the Dover road that lay, on a Friday night late in November, ...
A.Check the desk drawer.B.Go to the concert.C.Book the tickets. 3.Why does the man want to change his plan? A.For the bad weather.B.For his cold.C.For his studies, 4.Where does the conversation probably ...
New Year’s atmosphere is always cheerful and happy. (宝应中学10级4班 乔晨) 2012, with hopes The sunlight is as bright as that in spring, leaving me such an illusion that it is early spring rather than mid-winter. Perhaps it is because the New Year is approaching. We are happy because...
I have fought for what I believed in for a year now. If we win here we will win everywhere. The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it. And you had a lot of luck, he told himself, to have had such a good life. You've ...
They had been married just a year. She looked up, smiling, when he tucked the blanket around her legs.“You know, I've been wondering what it's like,”she said.“Before we're born, I mean. It's too bad we can't remember.”She opened her robe and pulled up the sweater she ...
This is what we waited for, he thought. So now let us take it. Make him pay for the line, he thought. Make him pay for it. He could not see the fish's jumps but only heard the breaking of the ocean and the heavy splash as he fell. The speed of the line was cutting his han...
“It just fell apart. And the man with the money will either make good or he won’t, simple as that.” Hansen, the dive shop owner, has a similar theory. “I don’t think there was an outright intention to defraud or mislead, I personally think they just weren’t sure how to han...