Он сидел перед зеркалом у входа в магазин на Риджент-сэркус и разглядывал себя с таким блаженным самодовольством, какое мне случалось наблюдать только на собраниях приходского совета...
Джером Клапка (Jerome Klapka)
«О суете и тщеславии»
и тут -- на неделю-другую, если имелась гостиница или пансион, и на пару дней, если нужно было пожить в доме местного плантатора или начальника округа, чьим гостеп..
Уильям Сомерсет Моэм (William Somerset Maugham)
«Сумка с книгами»
Но был слишком опытен, чтобы совершить такую глупость. Впрочем, человек с апельсиновыми корками как раз закурил с..
Морис Леблан (Maurice Leblanc)
«Красный шарф»
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Статьи:
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Столетие Джона Стейнбека. Радио Свобода
Тем временем:
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course, people got to avoiding him and shaking their heads and whispering,
because, the way he was looking and acting, they judged he had killed
somebody or done something terrible, they didn't know what, and if he had
been a stranger they would've lynched him.
Well, as I was saying, it got so he couldn't stand it any longer; so he
made up his mind to pull out for Washington, and just go to the President
of the United States and make a clean breast of the whole thing, not
keeping back an atom, and then fetch the letter out and lay it before the
whole gov'ment, and say, Now, there she is-do with me what you're a mind
to; though as heaven is my judge I am an innocent man and not deserving of
the full penalties of the law and leaving behind me a family that must
starve and yet hadn't had a thing to do with it, which is the whole truth
and I can swear to it.
So he did it. He had a little wee bit of steamboating, and some
stage-coaching, but all the rest of the way was horseback, and it took him
three weeks to get to Washington. He saw lots of land and lots of villages
and four cities. He was gone 'most eight weeks, and there never was such a
proud man in the village as he when he got back. His travels made him the
greatest man in all that region, and the most talked about; and people
come from as much as thirty miles back in the country, and from over in
the Illinois bottoms, too, just to look at him-and there they'd stand and
gawk, and he'd gabble. You never see anything like it.
Well, there wasn't any way now to settle which was the greatest
traveler; some said it was Nat, some said it was Tom. Everybody allowed
that Nat had seen the most longitude, but they had to give in that
whatever Tom was short in longitude he had made up in latitude and
climate...
