Sergei Matveyev

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

“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!”

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year to live upon; who yet swear they can hardly manage to make both ends meet. I mean really poor – downright, cruelly, hideously poor, with a poverty that is graceless, sordid and miserable

Now, how did he know that? he asked himself as he went down the stairs.

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!

now felt for the first time the joy of exploration

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

accelerated its cooling