Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 21, 2025
He had not learnt it from the teacher or from a book, but he gave a picture of the place as if he had actually been there. "You are inventing," a sceptical listener would say. "Vassili Nikitich never said that." His companions did not know what to make of him, for his sympathies changed so often that he had neither constant friends nor constant enemies.
"Matthew Nikitich has again not come," he said, in a dissatisfied tone. "Not yet?" said the president, putting on his uniform. "He is always late." "It is extraordinary. He ought to be ashamed of himself," said the member, angrily, and taking out a cigarette.
"Very well; so let it be the poison case," said the justice, considering that that case could be disposed of by four o'clock and make it possible for him to keep the appointment. "Has Matvei Nikitich arrived?" "Not yet." "Is Breae here?" "Yes," answered the secretary. "Then tell him that we shall try the poisoning case."
Now I understand what was lacking: I felt my loneliness, thirsted for the society of so-called live people; the word Life waked echoes in my heart, and with a vague ache I listened to the sound of it.... Valerian Nikitich, pass me a cigarette. Lighting the cigarette, the small man continued: 'One fine morning Bobov came running to me, out of breath: "Do you know, old man, the great news?
He was conscious of it and seemed to say by his demeanor: "Never mind your expressions of devotion," and brushed past the crowd. Finally Matvei Nikitich arrived, and the usher, a long-necked and lean man, with a sideling gait and protruding lower lip, entered the jury-room.
Then Iliya formed a close friendship with Dobrinja Nikitich; and saddling their steeds they rode off, and journeyed on for three months without meeting any enemy. At length they fell in with a cripple on the road; his beggar's cloak weighed fifty poods, his bonnet nine poods, and his crutch was six feet long.
"What is there droll about it?" said the gloomy member of the court, and sank into a still deeper gloom. And last of all came the third member of the court, that same Matvei Nikitich, who was always late. He wore a long beard, and had large, kindly eyes, with drooping eyelids.
Then two of the knights, Alescha Popovich and Dobrinja Nikitich, rode forth to ascertain the truth of the matter; and when the Prince was convinced, he ordered a glass of vodka to be given to the brave youth, and begged to hear the famous whistle of the Robber Nightingale.
"All right; the poisoning case let it be," said the president, thinking that he could get this case over by four o'clock, and then go away. "And Matthew Nikitich; has he come?" "Not yet." "And Breve?" "He is here," replied the secretary. "Then if you see him, please tell him that we begin with the poisoning case." Breve was the public prosecutor, who was to read the indictment in this case.
"So that, evidently, we shall have to call in at a cook shop," the brother-in-law added, laughing. "It is not at all funny," said the gloomy member, and became gloomier still. Then at last came the third member of the Court, the same Matthew Nikitich, who was always late. He was a bearded man, with large, round, kindly eyes.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking