The carriage rolled over Yelinka Street, and ice crystals on the iron-cast axles dripped melting snow like blood beads.
Arthur held a cigar in his mouth, his hands restlessly flipping through the summary of "The History of Little Russia" that his secretary had organized for him yesterday.
Yes, indeed, although this British Lord had praised the book highly in front of the Minister of Education, in reality, he had only read the preface and the first volume.
However, this does not mean that Gogol's "The History of Little Russia" is not well written, but rather that Arthur was tied up with affairs in the Caucasus.
Because the cunning Sir David Eckett insisted on playing hide and seek with the British Embassy, it forced Arthur to delay tackling the six-volume Ural Mountains of "The History of Little Russia."
