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Владимир Дмитриевич Аракин
"Oh, I'm sorry for that."
His black eyes flashed a bacchanalian smile. He really had somewhat the look of a young Silenus.5
"Life is full of compensations," he murmured.
The words were hardly out of his mouth when a Spanish woman, no longer in her first youth, but still boldly and voluptuously
beautiful, appeared at the door. She spoke to him in Spanish, and I could not fail to perceive that she was the mistress of the
house.
As he stood at the door to let me out he said to me:
"You told me when last I saw you that if I came here I should earn just enough money to keep body and soul together, but that
I should lead a wonderful life. Well, I want to tell you that you were right. Poor I have been and poor I shall always be, but by
heaven I've enjoyed myself. I wouldn't exchange the life I've had with that of any king in the world."
EXPLANATORY NOTES
1. Victoria Station: a railway terminus in the southern part of London.
2. Infirmary: a hospital; sick quarters at school.
3. Seville f'sevil]: a town in the province of Andalusia [.aenda'lixzja] in the south of Spain.
4. patio ['paeti3o]: an open courtyard within the walls of a Spanish house.
5. Silenus [sai'liings]: a Greek mythological character, the tutor and companion of Dionysus [.daia'naisss], the God of wine.
ESSENTIAL VOCABULARY Vocabulary Notes
1. confide
confidence
confidence. What she says does not inspire confidence. I shan't betray your confidence. She took me into her confidence. 2)
assurance, belief that one is right or that one will succeed,
confidence is most annoying. His comforting words gave me confidence. 3) secret which is confided to smb. (
listened to the girl's confidences with a mixed feeling of pity and disapproval.
confident
confidential
2. start
cause, to enable, to begin,
to make a sudden movement (from pain, shock, etc.),
starting-point