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The Looking-Glass
B1 · Intermediate · fiction · 7 scenes · Premium story
On New Year's Eve a general's daughter looks into a mirror and sees her future unroll: a husband, a snowstorm, a doctor at her door, and years that ask more of her than she can give.
Characters
- Nellie (Нелли) — General's daughter
- Stepan Lukich (Степан Лукич) — Doctor
- The husband (Муж) — Nellie's future husband
Vocabulary from this story
- доктор — doctor of Philosophy
- муж — husband
- видеть — see
- фон — background
- серый — grey
- глаз — eye
- жизнь — life
- бог — God
- мочь — be able
- лицо — face
- ехать — drive
- узкий — narrow