Aadlipesa - I. Turgenev

Four hours later he was already driving home. Tarantass rolled quickly along the soft village lane. The dry weather lasted for a few weeks. Dense milky white fog floated in the air and covered the distant forests, from where the smell of the desert was carried. Across the pale blue sky floated a multitude of dark clouds with indistinct outlines; a fairly strong wind blew like a dry incessant stream, but it did not reduce the suffocating heat.