Je Suis Le Meilleur Ami Des Betes
Random passage from Boris Akunin's The Winter Queen:
"The baroness knocked on one of the doors and they stepped into the classroom. Sitting at the desks were about fifteen boys aged eleven to twelve wearing blue uniforms with a golden letter 'A' on the jacket collar. All of them were watching with bated breath as a sullen young gentleman with immense side-whiskers, dressed in a rather untidy frock coat and a shirt that was none too fresh, spun some kind of glass wheel that was sputtering out bright blue sparks.
'Ich bin sehr beschaftigt, milady!' Dr Blank shouted angrily. 'Spater, spater!'
"The baroness knocked on one of the doors and they stepped into the classroom. Sitting at the desks were about fifteen boys aged eleven to twelve wearing blue uniforms with a golden letter 'A' on the jacket collar. All of them were watching with bated breath as a sullen young gentleman with immense side-whiskers, dressed in a rather untidy frock coat and a shirt that was none too fresh, spun some kind of glass wheel that was sputtering out bright blue sparks.
'Ich bin sehr beschaftigt, milady!' Dr Blank shouted angrily. 'Spater, spater!'