“My cousin Mourad put his arms around the horse, pressed his nose into the horse’s nose, patted it, and then we went away.”
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“That’s how it was in our tribe. A man could be the father of his son’s flesh, but that did not mean that he was also the father of his spirit. The distribution of the various kinds of spirit of our tribe had been from the beginning capricious and vagrant.”
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“Good morning, sons of my friends, he said. What is the name of your horse?
My Heart, my cousin Mourad said in Armenian.”
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My Heart, my cousin Mourad said in Armenian.”
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“Чем больше горячился папа, тем быстрее двигались пальцы, и наоборот, когда папа замолкал, и пальцы останавливались; но когда Яков сам начинал говорить, пальцы приходили в сильнейшее беспокойство и отчаянно прыгали в разные стороны. По их движениям, мне кажется, можно бы было угадывать тайные мысли Якова; лицо же его всегда было спокойно — выражало сознание своего достоинства и вместе с тем подвластности, то есть: я прав, а впрочем, воля ваша!”
Толстой Л.Н. “Детство.”
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Толстой Л.Н. “Детство.”
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