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Название книги: A Double Return
Автор(ы): Артур Мэйчен
Жанр: Классическая проза
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/A-Double-Return-197676.html
Arthur L. MachenA DOUBLE RETURN
The express from the west rushed through Acton with a scream, whirling clouds of dust around it; and Frank Halswell knocked out the ashes from his pipe and proceeded to gather from various quarters of the carriage his newspapers, his hat-box, his handbag, and, chief of all, a large portfolio carefully packed in brown paper. He looked at his watch, and said to himself: «6.30; we shall be at Paddington in five minutes; and only five minutes late, for a wonder.» But he congratulated himself and the railway company rather too soon: a few minutes later and the train began to slacken, the speed grew slower and slower, and at last came the grinding sound of the brakes and a dead stop. Halswell looked out of the window over the dreary expanse of Wormwood Scrubbs, and heard someone in the next carriage explaining the cause of the delay with pardonable pride in his technical knowledge. «You see, them there signals is against us, and if we was to go on we should jolly well go to k
Название книги: A Double Return
Автор(ы): Артур Мэйчен
Жанр: Классическая проза
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/A-Double-Return-197676.html
Arthur L. MachenA DOUBLE RETURN
The express from the west rushed through Acton with a scream, whirling clouds of dust around it; and Frank Halswell knocked out the ashes from his pipe and proceeded to gather from various quarters of the carriage his newspapers, his hat-box, his handbag, and, chief of all, a large portfolio carefully packed in brown paper. He looked at his watch, and said to himself: «6.30; we shall be at Paddington in five minutes; and only five minutes late, for a wonder.» But he congratulated himself and the railway company rather too soon: a few minutes later and the train began to slacken, the speed grew slower and slower, and at last came the grinding sound of the brakes and a dead stop. Halswell looked out of the window over the dreary expanse of Wormwood Scrubbs, and heard someone in the next carriage explaining the cause of the delay with pardonable pride in his technical knowledge. «You see, them there signals is against us, and if we was to go on we should jolly well go to k
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