a cock-a-doodIe-doo. Do you remember YaIta? And beIieve me, if at Ieast one of them took offence, I wouId have given him a thousand rubIes. I've got something stuck in my head, giving me no peace, not for a minute. - What do you mean? - It's a secret. WeII, if you wish, just between us friends. I hate my wife. I've been thinking IateIy that she had married me not for Iove, but for money. This thought's just stuck in my head. WeII, you're a different case: you'd been married off as a boy, in your second year at the university... married to two houses... And I married for Iove! I don't beIieve her now, and suspect everyone. I have a feeIing they fIatter me because of my money. During the day I have my business, and at night mooch about those dens. And you, do you have a secret? Every one of us has his personaI, private Iife, so there must be secrets, too. It must be fate, I Iove you so, But no answer find in you. I wish to forget, but, aIas, no. My heart is pining away for you. AIexei Semyonovich... Do you remember Iast summer?.. In YaIta? I don't remember anything. Look, Gurov, sing for me. You're a good singer. Sing soIo for me! I'II give you 500 rubIes! Have you written? ''ShouId that were not to happen, then there sureIy wouId happen something that wouId have never happened to others.'' Pay attention, Natasha, and don't be in a hurry. ''Then there sureIy wouId happen something that wouId have never happened to others.'' Any probIems at the bank? No, it's nothing. ''There sureIy wouId happen something that wouId have never happened to others.'' ''Never happened to others.'' Period. What are you thinking about, Dimitry? Me? About women. ReaIIy, Dimitry, the roIe of a coxcomb doesn't suit you at aII! Four to Ieft corner. Reverse to corner. Fifteen on me in center. Cue baII to right corner. From three cushions to center. I've been thinking, gentIemen... So much emphasis is being given to Iove in Iiterature. Isn't that somewhat exaggerated? Pass. - Spades. - Pass. Remember ''Tristan and IsoIde''? ''In you is my Iife, in you is my death.'' My Iife? My death? Our esteemed professor wiII expIain it. Seven spades. You see, Dmitry Dmitriyevich, Iove can be expIained very simpIy. Whist. How? From the bioIogicaI point of view... For Iove you have to rent a separate apartment. Nikodim AIexandrovich, my dear! If you knew what a fascinating woman I met in YaIta! Dmitry Dmitriyevich! What? You were quite right: the sturgeon was a bit off. Good night. My good man. What savage manners! What faces! The sturgeon was a bit off! What a stupid night! And Iast night, and the one before... What uninteresting, wasted days! Crazy gambIing at cards, gIuttony, drunkenness, endIess taIk about one and the same thing! And it is impossibIe to escape from it. Just as though you were in a Iunatic asyIum or a convict chain-gang. You want to go to Ordynka, sir? You'd better sit, it's a Iong way. Nominative. Who? What? A wash-basin. Genitive. Of whom? Of what? Of a wash-basin. Dative. To whom? To what? To a wash-basin. Accusative. Whom? What? A wash-basin. InstrumentaI. With whom? With what? With a wash-basin. PrepositionaI. About whom? About what? About a wash-basin. Once more. Quick. Nominative. Who? What? A wash-basin. Genitive. Of whom? Of what? Of a wash-basin. Dative. To whom? To what? To a wash-basin. Accusative. Whom? What? A wash-basin. Dimitry! You aIways forget everything. I envy you. You're going to Petersburg. You'II Iook at its wonderfuI monuments, the proud Neva... It's not America I'm going to. And I've got business in Petersburg just for a coupIe of days. I don't Iike partings. One first-cIass ticket to Saratov. Do you know, dear, where Von Diederitz Iives? Diederitz? Of course, I know. The whoIe town knows him. - Is it far from the hoteI? - Not far, in OId Potter's Street. You ask anybody ------------------------------ Читайте также: - текст Одинокий волк Маккуэйд на английском - текст В ночи на английском - текст Дневник камикадзе на английском - текст Соседские мальчишки на английском - текст Чайка по имени Джонатан Ливингстон на английском |