Marina Judenich

Set of locks and round eyepiece of door "eye" in the middle.
Door long did not open, then locks gradually have one after another begun
To click, last has hard tinkled, opening, a heavy door chain,
To which here, probably, trusted not less than difficult and obviously expensive
To locks - and on a threshold there was a high woman, gaunt, tightened with
Close-cut it is perfect a grey hair, she has been dressed unexpectedly in
Bright sports suit
- Here did not wait! - she has said it chilly, with easy irony, not
Having shown more any emotions and feelings, - well pass. The father, just, only
That has come from shops - assorts bags. You not one? - Saying all it
It has receded from a door, passing them in apartment and mechanically, as though
Executing a certain habitual ritual has substituted Полякову a cheek for a kiss. It,
However, it was put to it so mechanically
- Hi, mum. Excuse - without a call
- Well certainly, at call boxes such turns! - immediately
Mother has responded And Микаэль has noticed for itself, that more all in this woman
The bilious irony overflowing it - Well all right, it already is evident
Not very well Present a companion!
- My friend from Paris - prince Mikael Kurakin, - it is distinct and even slightly
тожественно has spoken Poles, but Микаэль has understood - it meaningly teases
Mother - the convinced communist as told about it in Paris
However she was able to behave in hands
- And why Микаэль? You after all, probably Michael call? - She has addressed
To Kurakin, as if having turned a deaf ear to all other components it
Representations
- Yes, крещен Michael, but the Parisian friends call so, on French
Harmony
- I if will allow, nevertheless will - be on русски - Мишей. Hello - it
Has stretched it a hand and it has felt strong almost man's hand shake dry
Firm palm. My name is Alexander Andreevna and to your friend I
Really mother though now it is difficult to believe in it both me, and to it. Well
Pass in a room For the disorder I do not apologise - are guilty - not
Have warned about visit - I worked.
Any disorder however, in the big room to which it has spent them
It was not observed. They have come there, passing the wide corridor which walls were
Densely завешаны the book shelves lasting to hardly probable not to a ceiling,
Besides, attention Микаэля was turned on themselves by huge branchy horns
Any very large animal, deer or elk which decorated the face
Corridor wall, under them accurately развешаны were any hunting
Accessories to make out which it a current was not in time. The corridor floor was
It is covered wide, a little shabby already, but ideally pure red carpet