Burning Daylight - Jack London - 图书 -  - 9798678284983 - 2020年10月9日
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Burning Daylight

Book Excerpt: ...a lone gray timber wolf, till the Virgin thrust her pretty fingers in her ears and shivered. A minute later she was whirled away in his arms to the dancing-floor, where, along with the other three women and their partners, a rollicking Virginia reel was soon in progress. Men and women danced in moccasins, and the place was soon a-roar, Burning Daylight the centre of it and the animating spark, with quip and jest and rough merriment rousing them out of the slough of despond in which he had found them. The atmosphere of the place changed with his coming. He seemed to fill it with his tremendous vitality. Men who entered from the street felt it immediately, and in response to their queries the barkeepers nodded at the back room, and said comprehensively, "Burning Daylight's on the tear." And the men who entered remained, and kept the barkeepers busy. The gamblers took heart of life, and soon the tables were filled, the click of chips and whir of the roulette-ball rising monotonously and imperiously abo...

介质类型 图书     Paperback Book   (平装胶订图书)
已发行 2020年10月9日
ISBN13 9798678284983
页数 282
商品尺寸 152 × 229 × 16 mm   ·   417 g
语言 英语  

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