V etot mig tuchi razoshlis', budto ikh razorval veter, solntse osvetilo bushuyushchee more, gde nedaleko ot berega kachalas' na volnakh znakomaya posudina. Na veslakh sidel khudoy starik v oborvannoy i mokroy odezhde, na korme polulezhala zhenshchina. Litso ee bylo obrashcheno k stariku, a dlinnye volosy zhelto-bolotnogo tsveta ukhodili pod vodu, bylo slyshno, kak ona smeyalas'. Na nosu lodki, pochti skrytyy figurami lyudey, chistil belosnezhnye per'ya ogromnyy al'batros. Starik nalegal na vesla, lodka udalyalas', i s ney proiskhodili udivitel'nye izmeneniya: ona stanovilas' vse bol'she,...