Тихий омут

Ne rodis krasivoy, a rodis schastlivoy, eta prostaya istina nravitsya "serenkim myshkam". No Vera sovsem drugoe delo. V detstve ona schitalas durnushkoy, a kogda lyudi razglyadeli, kakaya ona na samom dele neveroyatnaya, nezemnaya, vylitaya Aelita! eto otkrytie prineslo ey malo radosti. Da i chto khoroshego v zhenskoy zavisti i zhadnykh muzhskikh vzglyadakh? Strogaya Vera prepodaet studentam mutnuyu nauku psikhologiyu i schitaet, chto vse znaet o lyudyakh. Osobenno o takikh, kak nebritye passazhiry gromadnogo chernogo dzhipa, ot kotorykh prikhoditsya spasatsya begstvom. No esli by ne beg s prepyatstviyami po peresechennoy mestnosti, ona by tak i ne vstretila svoe schaste. A schaste ono dazhe krasavitse ne pomeshaet!..