Robert Louis Stevenson

Прав тот, кто ударит первый. Мертвые не кусаются.

and hastened to make ready. Long practice and a varied experience of life gave him an ability to disguise. He could adapt, not only his face

лошади из Кеу. Кив сел особняком

Дело не в умении заработать, а в умении сберечь…

Up to the age of sixteen, at a private school and afterwards at one of those great institutions for which England is justly famous, Mr. Harry Hartley had received the ordinary education of a gentleman. At that period, he manifested a remarkable distaste for study; and his only surviving parent being both weak and ignorant, he was permitted thenceforward to spend his time in the attainment of petty and purely elegant accomplishments. Two years later, he was left an orphan and almost a beggar.

One look at the man before me was enough. I saw the captain, and Black Dog, and the blind man, Pew, and I thought I knew what a pirate was like – a very different creature, according to me.

Скучные люди становятся скучными не от природы, а потому, что их совершенно поглощает одна какая-нибудь сторона человеческой деятельности.