“What pleasure is there for you in always saying something different from what you think?”
“But I am thinking seriously of engaging nice lodgings on Lung-Arno for you.”
“We shall stop at Verona.”
“For Romeo and Juliet? Of course; of course! Go now; later you would shrug your shoulders if you thought of them. In a month it would be too late for you to go, perhaps.”
Marynia started up at him like a cat; then, turning to her husband, said,—
“Stas, don’t let this gentleman annoy me so!”
“Well,” answered Pan Stanislav, “I will cut his head off, but after lunch.”
“It is not yet near day:
It was the nightingale, and not the lark,