thrusting my head out a little way I was able to get a good view of everything that was happen- in...
2011-12-14
In an hour's time a chance of proceeding on our journey presented itself. The snowstorm subsided, ...
ducats, the remaining five you owe me, kindly add them to the others." "Very well," said the major...
and cold!" "No, thank you" . . . "Well, just as you like!" I began my tea alone. About ten minute...
the weakness of what he was defending. There was nothing to defend. "But if that is so," he said t...
hundred-fold stronger and more vivid than in us, ecstatic composers of narratives in words and on ...
A Hero of Our Time by M. Y. Lermontov TRANSLATED FROM THE RUSSIAN OF M. Y. LERMONTOV By J. H. WIS...
that what you have already told me was not the end of it." "Why are you so certain?" answered the ...
he inquired of the driver. "No, sir," the Ossete answered; "but there are a great many threatening...
head of yours will get you into trouble.' "On one occasion, the old prince himself came to invite ...
bright. At first the sight of him, in his clean Russian peasant costume, engaged on that disgusting...
"And I could hear him patting his galloper's sleek neck with his hand, as he called him various fo...
"'Very well,' said Azamat, and galloped to the village. "In the evening Grigori Aleksandrovich arm...
helplessness, his terrible loneliness, the cruelty of man, the cruelty of God, and the absence of G...
afraid, and wished both to get to know and yet to deceive himself. He carefully undid the fastening...