Reading Aloud

Chapter 7

Arrangement

Слыхали ли вы про Опанаса Кузьмича, того самого, что кофей пил и после него всё село переколол на дрова? Так вот, с тех пор он стал человек образованный и в хозяйстве допускал только новейшие веяния.

Место на потолке

Happiness, Maren discovered, was an uncomfortable condition for a person of her habits.
It made her careless. She oversalted her soup. She wound the same clock twice and had to unwind it, a thing no watchmaker should ever do. Customers remarked that she seemed well, and she bristled, because being noticed in that way felt like being opened on the bench.