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"You like him too", she muttered. "I do. There's something very attractive about Mr.Brodie. He has his own teeth, he isn't even going bald yet", she said.

They were making supper together, Amelia poaching eggs, Julia warming baked beans in a saucepan. They were both at the frontier of their culinary capabilities.

She had been in Cambridge only a few days and yet her other life, her real life, already seemed a world away and she had to occasionnally remind herself that it existed.

Every evening since their arrival they had lit a fire and sat in front of the sitting-room hearth with the same kind of devotion chat prehistoric people must have afforded flames, except that prehistoric people didn't have Victor's extensive cable package to entertain themselves with.

Everything in the house seemed unsavory somehow, and in the kitchen and bathroom Amelia wore rubber gloves and cleaned constantly with antibacterial spray. "He didn't have the plague", Julia said, but wihout conviction beacause she had already boiled all the sheets and towels thet they were using.

Amelia wished she wouldn't do that, you didn't know where that dog's tongue had been - well, you did, that's why you didn't want it washing your face.

Терпеть его не могу, — прошипела Ким, когда тот исчез, — вечно пытается задружиться со мной, у меня от него мурашки по коже. Мужику за тридцать, а все еще живет с матерью — жалкий тип». И Лора сказала: «На вид безобидный», а Ким возразила: «Таких и надо опасаться.»

Возможность столкновения Земли с метеоритом не означает, что мы должны примириться с американизацией нашего языка и культуры.

Он открыл "Введение во французскую грамматику" и попытался сосредоточиться на правилах образования прошедшего времени с глаголом etre, хотя, когда он поселится во Франции, не будет ни прошлого, ни будущего, только настоящее.

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