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Updated: June 21, 2025
"What?" was her hasty exclamation, an exclamation uttered as though the words had affrighted her. Whereafter, with quivering lips, she began hesitantly and uncertainly to fumble in her bodice. "No, I have no need of money," I interposed. "Only, if you should be so willing, give me a piece of bread." "You have no need of money?" she re-echoed dubiously. "No, none.
Then from one of their ships they sent forth two old men who went round the coloured silk stuffs and other articles which had been piled up, examined them closely, whereafter they changed the single garments they had on, and each taking up a piece of cloth went on board their ship and departed." Meanwhile the Japanese had not made any attempt to molest them.
But run no risks; do not look for needless trouble, for your day for sucking sugarplums is past." Whereafter, raising both his hands, the young fellow had softly let them sink again upon the woman's bosom as he added triumphantly: "These breasts could feed all Russia!" Then, and only then, had the woman smiled a long, slow smile.
The guests returned by the same route as that by which they had come; whereafter, on reaching the house, Nozdrev conducted them to his study, which contained not a trace of the things usually to be found in such apartments such things as books and papers.
Sometimes, also, the younger man would buy the older one shoes, or a tie, or a waistcoat; whereafter, the old man would be as proud of his acquisition as a peacock. Not infrequently, also, the old man would step in to visit ourselves, and bring Sasha and myself gingerbread birds or apples, while talking unceasingly of Petinka.
Kindly allow me to forget the fact, or else to remain in ignorance of it, and I shall be much obliged to you." Whereafter the said landowner probably proceeds to spend on his diversion the money which ought to have gone towards the rehabilitation of his affairs.
"Oh dread God, Oh beneficent God, Oh God who sittest on high, and on a golden throne, and under a gilded canopy, do Thou now punish Satan, lest he overwhelm me in the midst of my sins!" Whereafter, turning a small and terrified face in my direction, and blinking his bright eyes, he added with hurried diction: "Come, brother! Come! Let us run on ahead, for thunderstorms are my bane.
No, for love is an instant's fusing of shadow and substance, fused for that instant only, whereafter the lover may harvest pleasure from either alone, but hardly from these two united." "Well," Manuel conceded, "all this may be true; but I never quite understood hexameters, and so I could not ever see the good of talking in them." "I always do that, Manuel, when I am deeply affected.
whereafter at seven lines down we get again: Ten de meg' ochthesas prosephe nephelegereta Zeus; in all of which I think we do get something of primitivism and unskill. It is a preoccupation with sound where there is no adequate excuse for the sound; after the fashion of some orators, whom, to speak plainly, it is a weariness to hear.
As speedily as if these visitors had been long expected, the servant brought in a tray bearing cups of syrupy coffee. Each of the guests accepted one. Whereafter the decorum of the occasion was shattered by Tim, who, at the imminent risk of scalding himself, gulped his refreshment and vociferated his satisfaction. "O-o-oh boy! That hits right where I live!
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