Илья Франк

I had hoped that His Majesty would think better of me if I told him about our methods of war. I decided therefore, to tell him something of the greatest importance. I told him that we have

it. If anyone had told me a year ago that I would have been feeling like that I should have laughed at him; but there was the fact. The weather made me liverish, the talk of the ordinary Englishman made me sick, I couldn’t get enough exercise, and the amusements of London seemed as flat as soda-water that has been standing in the sun.

Lui-même venait de ramasser le fusil d’un soldat mort et faisait le coup de feu

трезвого») , well-behaved (добропорядочного:

He was very weary and often wished to rest – to lie down and sleep; but he was continually driven on – not so much by his desire to gain the land of little sticks as by his hunger. He searched little ponds for frogs and dug up the earth with his nails for worms, though he knew in spite that neither frogs nor worms existed so far north.

first paling of the stars (но его глаза открылись с первыми

and about 2,000 head of cordial and dilatory inhabitants (и

Rivière, responsable du réseau entier, se promenait de long en large sur le terrain d’atterrissage de Buenos Aires. Il demeurait silencieux car, jusqu’à l’arrivée des trois avions, cette journée, pour lui, restait redoutable. Minute par minute, à mesure que les télégrammes lui parvenaient, Rivière avait conscience d’arracher quelque chose au sort, de réduire la part d’inconnu, et de tirer ses équipages, hors de la nuit, jusqu’au rivage.

La petite ville de P… est bâtie sur une colline. Au pied des anciens remparts, coule un ruisseau, encaissé et très profond, le Chanteclair, qu’on nomme sans doute ainsi pour le bruit cristallin de ses eaux limpides. Lorsqu’on arrive par la route de Versailles, on traverse le Chanteclair, à la porte sud de la ville, sur un pont de pierre d’une seule arche, dont les larges parapets, bas et arrondis, servent de bancs à tous les vieillards du faubourg.

Up to the age of sixteen, at a private school and afterwards at one of those great institutions for which England is justly famous, Mr. Harry Hartley had received the ordinary education of a gentleman. At that period, he manifested a remarkable distaste for study; and his only surviving parent being both weak and ignorant, he was permitted thenceforward to spend his time in the attainment of petty and purely elegant accomplishments. Two years later, he was left an orphan and almost a beggar.