You're not racing? joked the officer.Mine is a harder race, Alexei Alexandrovich replied respectfully.And though the reply did not mean anything, the officer pretended that he had heard a clever phrase from a clever man and had perfectly understood.
Leo Tolstoy
You're not racing? joked the officer.Mine is a harder race, Alexei Alexandrovich replied respectfully.And though the reply did not mean anything, the officer pretended that he had heard a clever phrase from a clever man and had perfectly understood.