It is very easy for it to become excited in these mountain-holes, without taking into account the wearisomeness of hotel-life.

From the very day after our arrival you took a dislike to the paper in our little _salon_, and its squares, I confess, are very ugly.

In every square, a thrush stretching out its neck to peck a currant.

Two hundred thrushes and two hundred currants--it was enough to weary you to death.

Suddenly there appears a Pole--" "The thrushes had nothing to do with it," she replied, smiling.