Sublime

What seemed to him strangest of all was that his brother Ivan, on whom alone he had rested his hopes, and who alone had such influence on his father that he could have stopped him, sat now quite unmoved, with downcast eyes, apparently waiting with interest to see how it would end, as though he had nothing to do with it.

‘I’m amazed at the clairvoyance of people in love,’ she added with a smile and so that he alone could hear: ‘She wasn’t there. But drop in after the opera.’

malaprop.

имел даже благородное побуждение к просвещению, то есть чтению книг, содержанием которых не затруднялся: ему было совершенно все равно, похождение ли влюбленного героя, просто букварь или молитвенник, — он всё читал с равным вниманием; если бы ему подвернули химию, он и от нее бы не отказался. Ему нравилось не то, о чем читал он, но больше самое чт

dialectics,