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Название книги: Brat Farrar
Автор(ы): Josephine Tey
Жанр: Детектив
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/Brat-Farrar-193726.html
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"Aunt Bee," said Jane, breathing heavily into her soup, "was Noah a cleverer back-room boy than Ulysses, or was Ulysses a cleverer back-room boy than Noah?""Don't eat out of the point of your spoon, Jane.""I can't mobilise the strings out of the side.""Ruth does."Jane looked across at her twin, negotiating the vermicelli with smug neatness."She has a stronger suck than I have.""Aunt Bee has a face like a very expensive cat," Ruth said, eyeing her aunt sideways.Bee privately thought that this was a very good description, but wished that Ruth would not be quaint."No, but which was the cleverest?" said Jane, who never departed from a path once her feet were on it."Clever-er," said Ruth."Was it Noah or Ulysses? Simon, which was it, do you think?""Ulysses," said her brother, not looking up from his paper.It was so like Simon, Bee thought, to be reading the list of runners at Newmarket, peppering his soup, and listening to the conversation at one and the same time."Why, Simon? Why Ulysses?""He hadn't Noah's good Met. serv
Название книги: Brat Farrar
Автор(ы): Josephine Tey
Жанр: Детектив
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/Brat-Farrar-193726.html
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"Aunt Bee," said Jane, breathing heavily into her soup, "was Noah a cleverer back-room boy than Ulysses, or was Ulysses a cleverer back-room boy than Noah?""Don't eat out of the point of your spoon, Jane.""I can't mobilise the strings out of the side.""Ruth does."Jane looked across at her twin, negotiating the vermicelli with smug neatness."She has a stronger suck than I have.""Aunt Bee has a face like a very expensive cat," Ruth said, eyeing her aunt sideways.Bee privately thought that this was a very good description, but wished that Ruth would not be quaint."No, but which was the cleverest?" said Jane, who never departed from a path once her feet were on it."Clever-er," said Ruth."Was it Noah or Ulysses? Simon, which was it, do you think?""Ulysses," said her brother, not looking up from his paper.It was so like Simon, Bee thought, to be reading the list of runners at Newmarket, peppering his soup, and listening to the conversation at one and the same time."Why, Simon? Why Ulysses?""He hadn't Noah's good Met. serv
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