The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest.
Near it in the field, I remember, were three faint points of light, three telescopic stars infinitely remote, and all around it was the unfathomable darkness of empty space.
She stared at him in astonishment, and as she read something of the significant hieroglyphic of his battered face, her lips whitened.
Princevenom He completely abandoned the child of his marriage with Adelaida Ivanovna, not from malice, nor because of his matrimoni- al grievances, b...