Book: The Queen of spades

Immersed in cold selfishness, like all old people, olubuse his age and not the present.

He had strong passions and an ardent imagination, but his firmness saved him from the ordinary errors of youth.

This person has at least three crimes upon his conscience!

Foreign bread has a bitter, "says Dante," and his staircase hard to climb someone else's porch.

On returning home she ran to her room, took from her glove a letter: it was not sealed. Lizaveta read it. The letter contained a Declaration of love; it was tender, respectful, and copied word for word from a German novel.

Already nearing midnight, and Herman all there.

Having little true faith, he had many prejudices.

Three, seven, ACE - never left his head and moved his lips. Seeing the young girl, he said: "How slender she is! True the three of hearts". He was asked: "what time?" He replied: "five minutes to seven." Every stout man that he saw reminded him of ACE.

Economy, temperance and industry: those are my three winning cards, that give you usamerica my capital and give me the peace and independence!

- Paul! - cried the Countess from behind Shirov, - send me some new novel, only pray not the current one.
- How is it, Grandmamma?
- That is, a novel, in which the hero strangles neither his father nor mother, and in which there are no drowned bodies. I'm terrified of drowning!
- There are no such novels nowadays. Do you want a Russian one?
- Are there any Russian novels? Come, father, please come!

The Countess was so old that her death nobody could hit, and her relatives had long looked upon her as obsolete.

I'm not in the position to sacrifice the necessary in the hope of winning the superfluous.