Название: Timar's Two Worlds
Автор: Mór Jókai
Издательство: Bookwire
Жанр: Языкознание
isbn: 4064066238667
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He was a full minute under water. He had held his breath the whole time, as if to try an experiment how long a man could do without breathing.
When Michael's head appeared above the water she heaved a deep sigh, and her face beamed when Timar gave her the rescued casket, but not on its account.
"Well, captain!" exclaimed the steersman, as he helped Timar into the boat, "that's thrice you've got soaked for the love of these eyebrows. Thrice!"
Timéa asked Michael in a whisper, "What is the Greek for the word thrice?" Michael translated it. Then Timéa looked at him long, and repeated to herself in a low voice "Thrice."
The boat approached the shore in the direction of Almas.
Against the steely mirror in the twilight a long line was visible, like a distressful note of exclamation or a pause in life. It was the topmast of the "St. Barbara."
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