"Madeline L' Engle - Time Quartet 04 - Many Waters" - читать интересную книгу автора (L'Engle Madeleine)

"The family can do with some ordinary, run-of-the-mill
people. And we're not exactly dumb. If I'm going to be a
doctor and you're going to be a lawyer, we've got to be
bright enough for all that education. I'm thirsty."


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Sandy opened the cupboard above the kitchen door.
Only a year before, they had been too short to reach it
without climbing on a stool. "Where's the Dutch cocoa?
That's what I want." Sandy moved various boxes of lentils,
barley, kidney beans, cans of tuna and salmon.

"Bet Mother's got it out in the lab. Let's go look."
Dennys sliced more ham. >-

Sandy put a large dill pickle in'his mouth. "Let's finish
making the sandwiches first."

"Food first. Fine."

With sandwiches an inch or more thick in their hands,
and full mouths, they went back out to the pantry and
turned into the lab. In the early years of the century, when
ihe house had been part of a working dairy farm, the lab
had been used to keep milk, butter, eggs, and there was
still a large churn in one corner, which now served to
hold a lamp. The work counter with the stone sink func-
tioned as well for holding lab equipment as it had for milk
and eggs. There was now a formidable-looking microscope,

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some strange equipment only their mother understood,
and an old-fashioned Bunsen burner, over which, on a
homemade tripod, a black kettle was simmering.

Sandy sniffed appreciatively. "Stew."

"I think we're supposed to call it boeuf bourguignon."
Dennys reached up to the shelf over [he sink and pulled
down a square red tin. "Here's the cocoa. Mother and Dad
like it at bedtime."

"When's Dad coming home?" Dennys wanted to know.