Sergei Matveyev

accelerated its cooling

“Will she last out the night 1 , I wonder?”

Mr. Phillips paid no heed to Gilbert.

luncheon in his consulting-room,

with a wise and benevolent appearance in spite of his tushes 3

There I was struck on the shoulder 3  by a bullet, which shattered the bone

Well, when they had all eaten, they began playing games with the bones, tossing them one to another. One little leg-bone fell close to the closet door, and the farmer was so afraid that the pixies should come there and find him in their search for the bone, that he put out his hand and picked it up. Then he saw the king stand on the table and say, ‘Gather the bones!’

lifted up the sword with the other

Near the further end a passage led to the chemical laboratory

“Yes – if Darcy does not put it off 65 again,” replied Colonel Fitzwilliam. “But I am at his disposal. He arranges the business just as he pleases. He likes to have his own way very well. But so we all do. He is rich, and many others are poor. Our habits of expense make us too dependent, and there are few people in my