Thus Clifford G. Roe, ex-Assistant State Attorney of Cook County, Ill., makes the open charge that New England girls are shipped to Panama for the express use of men in the employ of Uncle Sam. Roe adds that "there seems to be an underground railroad between Boston and Washington which many girls travel." Is it not significant that the railroad should lead to the very seat of Federal authority? That Mr. Roe said more than was desired in certain quarters is proved by the fact that he lost his position. It is not practical for men in office to tell tales from school.英文原著 · 《Anarchism and Other Essays》
Why did her lord tarry? Had she not heard him ride into the courtyard and give his palfrey to the waiting serf? Yet where was he? He was to spring up the stairs lightly as a roebuck of the mountains to welcome her, and now where was he? Little did she guess--"
Here Shrimp took the paper and wrote:
"--that a brand-new monoplane was blocking up the stairs, so big that not a roebuck on earth could jump it. But what of the secret of the castle? Was that the secret? Why did the wind shriek and the deerhound moan?英文原著 · 《The Slowcoach》
Peter Roeder," she read. "I've no card," she said. "My name is Shelly. I'm here for my health, as I told you." She rose at this point, and held out her hand. "I must thank you once more for your kindness," she said.英文原著 · 《A Mountain Woman》
Peter Roeder made a very low and awkward bow, and opened the door into the corridor for her.英文原著 · 《A Mountain Woman》
She was well enough now to take longer drives; and she found strange, lonely can- yons, wild and beautiful, where yellow waters burst through rocky barriers with roar and fury, -- tortuous, terrible places, such as she had never dreamed of. Coming back from one of these drives, two days after her conversation on the piazza with Peter Roeder, she met him riding a massive roan. He sat the animal with that air of perfect unconsciousness which is the attribute of the Western man, and his attire, even to his English stock, was faultless, -- faultily faultless.英文原著 · 《A Mountain Woman》
"The wind gits a fine sweep," said Roeder, after having obtained the permis- sion he desired. "Now in the gulch we either had a dead stagnation, or else the wind was tearin' up and down like a wild beast."英文原著 · 《A Mountain Woman》