Sergei Matveyev

“Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!”

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

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Тот, кто не прилагает ни малейших усилий, не смеет завидовать таланту. Неумехи даже не представляют, сколько времени и сил тратят умехи, чтобы добиться цели.

Beasts of England, beasts of Ireland, Beasts of every land and clime, Hearken well and spread my tidings Of the golden future time!

“My daughter span five, five skeins today.

“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

ever-increasing pressure will become at last

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

accelerated its cooling