sa-alt

Updated: May 12, 2025

And she says, "Mother, where have you put the salt... the salt... sa-alt?" The word 'salt' overpowered her. But again, as in the morning, I was but little moved by Fustov's tears. I could not conceive how it was he did not ask me if Susanna had not left something for him. Altogether their love for one another was a riddle to me; and a riddle it remained to me.

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev - The Jew and Other Stories