He had never had to work so hard ; he had done his job as conscientiously well as he had always done any assignment ; but it was as if he had worked in a vacuum , as if his energy had found no transmitters and had run into the sands of . . . of some such desert as the one beyond the window of the Comet .
Ему никогда еще не приходилось так много работать; он выполнял свою работу так же добросовестно, как всегда выполнял любое поручение; но как будто он работал в вакууме, как будто его энергия не нашла передатчиков и утекла в пески... какой-то пустыни, вроде той, что за окном «Кометы».
