Fables

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Роберт Стивенсон. Fables

I. – THE PERSONS OF THE TALE

II. – THE SINKING SHIP

III – THE TWO MATCHES

IV. – THE SICK MAN AND THE FIREMAN

V. – THE DEVIL AND THE INNKEEPER

VI. – THE PENITENT

VII. – THE YELLOW PAINT

VIII. – THE HOUSE OF ELD

IX. – THE FOUR REFORMERS

X. – THE MAN AND HIS FRIEND

XI. – THE READER

XII. – THE CITIZEN AND THE TRAVELLER

XIII. – THE DISTINGUISHED STRANGER

XIV. – THE CART-HORSES AND THE SADDLE-HORSE

XV. – THE TADPOLE AND THE FROG

XVI. – SOMETHING IN IT

XVII. – FAITH, HALF FAITH AND NO FAITH AT ALL

XVIII. – THE TOUCHSTONE

XIX. – THE POOR THING

XX. – THE SONG OF THE MORROW

Отрывок из книги

“Sir,” said the first lieutenant, bursting into the Captain’s cabin, “the ship is going down.”

“Very well, Mr. Spoker,” said the Captain; “but that is no reason for going about half-shaved. Exercise your mind a moment, Mr. Spoker, and you will see that to the philosophic eye there is nothing new in our position: the ship (if she is to go down at all) may be said to have been going down since she was launched.”

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The men were already too far gone to pay much heed.

“This is a very painful sight, Mr. Spoker,” said the Captain.

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