The Oil Jar And Other Stories
“An almond branch, which seemed to be all a-blossom with butterflies, projected toward the window; and, mingled with the hoarse, muffled gurgle of the small basin in the center of the garden, was heard the festive peal of faraway churchbells and the chirping of the swallows intoxicated with the air and the sunshine.
As she stepped away from the window, sighing, Anna noticed that her husband that morning had forgotten to rumple his bed, as he used to do each time, so that the servants couldn’t te...ll that he hadn’t slept in his room. She rested her elbows on the untouched bed, then stretched out on it with her whole torso, bending her pretty blonde head over the pillows and half-closing her eyes, as if to savor, in the freshness of the linens, the slumbers he was accustomed to enjoy there. A flock of swallows flashed headlong past the window, shrieking.
“You would have done better to sleep here ... ,” she murmured languidly after a moment, and got up again wearily.
Her husband was to set out that very evening, and Anna had come into his room to prepare for him the things he needed for the trip.MoreLess
As she stepped away from the window, sighing, Anna noticed that her husband that morning had forgotten to rumple his bed, as he used to do each time, so that the servants couldn’t te...ll that he hadn’t slept in his room. She rested her elbows on the untouched bed, then stretched out on it with her whole torso, bending her pretty blonde head over the pillows and half-closing her eyes, as if to savor, in the freshness of the linens, the slumbers he was accustomed to enjoy there. A flock of swallows flashed headlong past the window, shrieking.
“You would have done better to sleep here ... ,” she murmured languidly after a moment, and got up again wearily.
Her husband was to set out that very evening, and Anna had come into his room to prepare for him the things he needed for the trip.MoreLess
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