"Avram Davidson - Young Virgil 2" - читать интересную книгу автора (Davidson Avram)

that! Aunt had paid them a visit, had not felt she'd
been made to feel welcomed; her next small gift,
carried by the boy "Mariu," had been disparaged
by the now-chief woman of old Emma's house,
and been deprecated as precisely that: small. As
"Mariu" had, in all child innocence, reported.

After that, the aunt sent things seldom, and Emma
(her humble gifts: two eggs, say, still warm in some
straw in a tiny basket she'd made herself) sent
things no more at all. Nor, evidently, was allowed