John Buchan

языка. Он произнес речь в их вкусе, удовлетворяя их врожденную склонность к поэзии потоками туманного красноречия и образными оборотами. Ему отвечали в том же духе Тлинг-Тиннех

it. If anyone had told me a year ago that I would have been feeling like that I should have laughed at him; but there was the fact. The weather made me liverish, the talk of the ordinary Englishman made me sick, I couldn’t get enough exercise, and the amusements of London seemed as flat as soda-water that has been standing in the sun.