英文之旅

However, lacking both time and inclination, I did not wait to hear about the afflicted cow, but took my leave.

IT was Christmas Eve. Marya had long been snoring on the stove; all the paraffin in the little lamp had burnt out, but Fyodor Nilov still sat at work.

Never are there such departures as from the dock at Honolulu. The great transport lay with steam up, ready to pull out.

The conversation drifted smoothly and pleasantly along from weather to crops, from crops to literature, from literature to scandal, from scandal to religion; then took a random jump, and landed on the subject of burglar alarms.