... people in
his land were dead, he chose a thousand healthy andhappy friends and took them away
from the city. He took them over the hills and far away, to his favourite house, in the
middle of ... colour as
they danced from room to room until the minute-hand on the clock came up to the
hour And then, when they heard the first sound of the clock, everything stopped as
before.
The dreams ... easily. Then,
on the fourth day, the police came. I was not worried when they searched the house. They
asked me to come with them as they searched. They looked everywhere, several times.
Then they...
... very rich and since ruined. To tell
the truth, without false modesty, they pursued me and finally captured me. The mother
(the father was away) laid all sorts of traps, and one of these, a trip ... thousand.)
" ;And all know it, and pretend not to know it. In all the novels are described down to
the smallest details the feelings of the characters, the lakes and brambles around which
they ... cases—in reality, they are
innumerable—where they have killed, now a child in its mother's womb, asserting
positively that the mother could not give birth to it (when the mother could give...
... your other
eye. You will not be able to see!’
‘Do it!’ said the prince.
So the bird took out theprince s other eye and flew down with it. He flew to the girl and
put the jewel in her hand. ... repeated the bird, and he slept at theprince s feet.
The next day he stayed with the prince. He told theprincestories about the strange
lands that he knew.
‘Dear little bird,’ said the prince, ... kings and queens, princes and princesses, giants and dwarfs, and
talking animals. Exciting and amusing, happyand sad, these are stories for people of all
ages.
The stories were written by the...
... why the criminals were interested in
the cellar of the bank. What was the
reason?
Why were three policemen waiting at the front door of Wilson's
shop?
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Watson andthe others waited in the ... o'clock. Then Julia
went to bed.
'All
the bedrooms at Stoke Moran are in the same part of the
house. They're all next to each other, on the ground floor.
&apos ;The
door of each ... for? I walked round the corner,
saw the City and Suburban Bank and knew that I had solved
the problem. When you went home, I visited Jones and Mr
Merry
weather and asked them to come with us
...
... reached the next station.
There the lawyer andthe lady went out, as well as the clerk. We were left alone,
Posdnicheff and I.
"They say it, and they lie, or they do not understand," ... them, and
then not love them; and when they love, they do not wish to feel fear for the child's
health and life. That is why they do not wish to nurse them. 'If I nurse it,' they ... very rich and since ruined. To tell
the truth, without false modesty, they pursued me and finally captured me. The mother
(the father was away) laid all sorts of traps, and one of these, a trip...
... about their lives? Will they be happy?
The Dream andOtherStories
Language in use
Look at the sentence on the right. Then
make these sentences into one in the
lime way. Use
who, whose
and
...
ã the Andes ã the River Amazon
2 Discuss in pairs why these are important in the story.
Miami
Portugal
the Yucatan
The Dream andOtherStories
Language in use
Loок at the sentence on the ... very fast. Then the front of the lorry just touched the back of the car. It
was only a light touch, but it knocked the car towards the side of the road and
the woman at the table.
The driver...
... while the canaries in the dining-room chirped their
hardest, exasperated by the hissing of the smouldering mint.
I was fatherless and motherless, and my aunt spoiled me. She placed
the whole ... fright, and to tell Siliavka to hold his tongue, but now the affair
had become public, and could not escape the cognisance of the
authorities.’
The Jew andOtherStories
3
‘But what’s the ... said the same evening to Fustov, on the way home with
The Jew andOtherStories
2
calm morning; the long lines of our fortifications were lost in the
mist; I gazed till I was weary, and then...
... that Carey and some others had used the
cover of the festival to sneak out of the colony onto the surface. The
“First Imprints Club.” In the dead lunar surface the marks of their urine
in the dust ... was breaking all the gray land-
scape into particles, no piece of the moon connected to any other piece,
and all of it was dead. The voices of theother searchers calling to each
other sounded in ... came in twos and threes, adults and chil-
dren, along the paths that led down from the colony perimeter road
through the farmlands to the park. Others emerged from the doors at the
97
The woman...
... of the year to the
other. They are the dark places of the earth, full of unimaginable
cruelty,touching
the Railway andthe Telegraphononeside, and, on
the other, the ... out, andthe less recording and
reporting the betterfor the peaceof the subscribers.But the Empires
and the Kings continue to divert themselves as selfishly as before,
and the ... know, and you can come up
and helpusgovernit.”
The PhantomRickshaw andOther Ghost Stories
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carriage andthe coolies with their old livery was lost. Again and
again...
... of
the room to the other, on which baby-clothes and a pair of big black trousers are hanging.
There is a big patch of green on the ceiling from the ikon lamp, andthe baby-clothes and
the ... on the stove, on the cradle, and on Varka. . . . When the
lamp begins to flicker, the green patch andthe shadows come to life, and are set in
motion, as though by the wind. It is stuffy. There ... clouds chasing one another over the sky, and
screaming like the baby. But then the wind blows, the clouds are gone, and Varka sees a
broad high road covered with liquid mud; along the high road stretch...