Прошлой зимой я начеренковала себе слишком много хризантем. Настолько много, что места для них в моем саду не хватило. Я же не знала - получится у меня или нет, поскольку делала все впервые. Вот и старалась создавать запасы укорененных черенков не хуже хомяка...

Professor Openshaw always lost his temper, with a loud bang, if anybody called him a Spiritualist; or a believer in Spiritualism. This, however, did not exhaust his explosive elements; for he also lost his temper if anybody called him a disbeliever in Spiritualism. It was his pride to have given his whole life to investigating Psychic Phenomena; it was also his pride never to have given a hint of whether he thought they were really psychic or merely phenomenal. He enjoyed nothing so much as to sit...