Pearly woman. Prose in English. Natalia Patratskaya
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postponed. The picture progressed successfully. Beautiful peacock straightened tail feathers on the background of river waves. The golden frame of an elaborate baguette stood and waited for a new masterpiece on the canvas.
Count Peacock went to Bella and at first glance realized that she saw everything from the window. Hysteria and requests he did not wait from her. The girl was firmly aware that the requests would only worsen her position and people on the boat.
The ship was only nailed to the pier, as the sailors Buiek and Ledok jumped out of the ground and pushed it into the sea with a wave. The ship spun in the direction of the sea.
Bella quickly drew a boat and hooks on the quay on a sheet with a pencil. In the poultry yard of the castle, besides peacocks, lived turkeys, hens and pigeons. She made friends with the birds, and they greeted her favorably. This time she tied a drawing to the leg of a pigeon with a thin elastic band, released it from the bird’s yard, tightened with a metal grid.
A beautiful pigeon with shaggy legs flew where it should be. Pigeon road passed through the air from the palace of Peacock to the pigeon house of the boarding house, located near the administrative building.
At the pigeon house usual lovers of pigeons were constantly spinning. One man noticed a piece of paper on the pigeon’s leg and the signature Bella. The entire pension knew about her disappearance. The man did not take it for work and found Detective Ilya.
Elijah looked at the drawing and suggested that she had another story connected with a sleeping pill in wine, but how could he help and to whom? However, he said thanks to the man for help and thoughtfully went looking for Pasha, who understood everything at once. Ilya caught his train of thought when Pasha told him about his trip and the search for Bella. Apparently, the ship is wrecked, and Bella is still a prisoner of Count Peacock. Ilya called the shipping company and said that there is data from the scene of events for which the white ship is in distress in the area of the Peacock Palace. He was told that they would take all measures to save people and the ship.
Alla in her own way worried about her friend Bella. The departure date inexorably approached, and she persistently continued to be jealous of Bell to Count Pavlin, but she could not help her and herself. Her friend Yura was glad that Alla was with him.
Pasha was worried about Bella, but it was clear that if she was not released from the clutches of Count Peacock, he would still go to his home, and other people would come to the boarding house.
Bella felt tired, she did not want to take a brush in his hands. She went to the luxurious swimming pool, empty and cool of marble. Then she went to the dining room, where with appetite she ate everything she served and fell asleep with a sense of accomplishment.
Waking up, Bella saw Count Pavlin.
“Bella, you can get driving license and car license.” This is your picture. She’s really good at it. You will finish writing a picture and get the keys to the new car, they will help you to master it, and you will pass on the rights in the city of Cypress.
– And I can go home on it?
– I think no. If you want to stay in the Peacock Palace, then I can provide you with the entire second floor. You have a choice, but I have no choice. I suggest you become a housekeeper and an artist.
“Can I leave the palace grounds of my own free will?”
– Yes. There is an exit on the other side of the palace on the highway, through which you can leave the house when you want, but you must return until evening.
– Can I think a day? During this time I finish writing a picture.
“Think,” said Count Peacock, and went about his business.
A day later, Bella said she agreed to stay in the castle. Count Peacock replied that the car was waiting for her. From her point of view, she was incredibly lucky: she got a job, a whole floor of living space, on the east side of which there was a sunbathing balcony with deck chairs, and the floor below she could use the pool. She was scheduled art workshop and private car.
But Count Peacock would not be himself if he so easily gave away half of his palace. In Bella, he saw a serious girl, it was possible to leave her abandoned housing. Yes, it is abandoned housing. The village of Abrikosovka did not have its own station, there was no airport in it, there was a small pier for water transport.
The new apartment of Count Pavlin was located in the neighboring city of Cypress, his business flourished in gaming halls, he was the owner of a fabulous gaming complex. His beautiful face inspired the confidence of visitors to the city. People, or rather their money, flowed like a river into slot machines, on card tables. Roulette ate the rest of the financial reserves of visitors.
Pasha, Yura and Alla came out of the gates of the boarding house. They were waiting for a regular bus to go to the railway station in the neighboring city of Cypress. Their last words were about Bella. Naturally, she immediately appeared on a new car and offered to take them to the city.
Pasha melted at one glance at Bella, but she was unusually serious and offered to sit behind the wheel. He refused due to lack of driving license. Bella already had her driving license, she received them almost simultaneously with the car, and she drove the car along with her father, so she was not a novice at the wheel.
Bella’s success did not give rest to Alla, she bit her elbows, because she is more beautiful than her, she was first with Count Pavlin, and everything went to her friend. Not fair. Yura had no thoughts about this. With Alla they went to different cities, and before Bella he didn’t care. Bella drove the car smoothly along the road, she studied the route between Abrikosovka and Cypress on the map, did not answer questions from friends about the rest.
She was saying goodbye to her former life. Her decision to stay with Count Pavlin seemed solid and was not discussed. The car drove through the central streets of the city of Cypress. On the way, she saw a glittering game complex and a portrait of a man whose face was vaguely familiar. But to recognize the face of Count Pavlin in the illuminations on the facade of the building her friends and girlfriend did not guess. All three of them were traveling on the same train, however, Alla had to go to a halt earlier.
Bella spent her buddies and asked goodbye to Alla to talk to her parents and dismiss her from work, while she handed over an application for dismissal from the factory on the painting of boxes.
Pasha felt with his gut that relations with Bella were no longer shining for him. Bella calmly got into the car and drove back. At the gaming complex, she suspended the car, once again looked at the glittering portrait and easily recognized him as Count Pavlin. The girl smiled at the portrait and went to her palace. Bella began to gain something, but she decided not to ask the owner because of the elementary safety of the questions, but to perform the functions for which she was left in the Peacock Palace.
Pasha came home, went to the store with the name “Products”, but instead of products it sold wine and there were slot machines, decorated with all the colors of the rainbow. The young man went to the tea shop, but there were also money dispensers in it.
At home, his younger brother sat at his computer and played games. On the monitor screen, he drove cars, a man ran from the car, got into other cars and drove along the roads, breaking all the rules. Pasha decided to go to the computer room, but instead of computers everywhere there were automatic machines, painted to disgrace.
What is it for? Throughout the city, there was one computer room where computers were located, but they were almost all occupied by people. This salon was known to everyone, the owner of the salon was killed in it and computers were dragged away, but, apparently, another owner was found and everything was restored.
What could Paul do? After leaving for work, go out and buy a new computer for yourself, and give the old one to your younger brother? Work after the holidays has accumulated and for some time occupied all his thoughts, but already at lunch he remembered Bella.
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