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Page 114
Pan Kturenda gave a sob, dived down and tried to kiss my hand. I snatched it
away. Amalia stood in the doorway, watching him through narrowed eyes. Never
before had I seen such a mean expression on her face. It struck me that, if I had ...
Pan Kturenda gave a sob, dived down and tried to kiss my hand. I snatched it
away. Amalia stood in the doorway, watching him through narrowed eyes. Never
before had I seen such a mean expression on her face. It struck me that, if I had ...
Page 134
'I can paint,' Kturenda said importantly, sticking out his lip with its cropped little
moustache, 'I can paint up to three a day. Sometimes even five. It depends ... No
one is going to lay a finger on Pan Kturenda.' 'It's not prison I'm afraid of,' the old ...
'I can paint,' Kturenda said importantly, sticking out his lip with its cropped little
moustache, 'I can paint up to three a day. Sometimes even five. It depends ... No
one is going to lay a finger on Pan Kturenda.' 'It's not prison I'm afraid of,' the old ...
Page 135
Careful and practical as ever, she set up her own watch on Ktur- enda that same
day. But her precautions proved unnecessary. That very evening, Pan Kturenda
met his end before our eyes. And his death was as unbearably pointless as had ...
Careful and practical as ever, she set up her own watch on Ktur- enda that same
day. But her precautions proved unnecessary. That very evening, Pan Kturenda
met his end before our eyes. And his death was as unbearably pointless as had ...
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Contents
Whirlpool pagej 2 Blue Torches | 23 |
3 The Journalists Cafe | 56 |
4 The Hall with the Fountain | 58 |
Copyright | |
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Amalia Anarchists Antoshchenko arms army asked Atamans Bolsheviks Boulevard broken bullet burst cigarette Commander Commissar Cossack crowd dark Denikin Dnieper Dodya door driver empty everything eyes face fire flowers front Gaidamaks Galya garden gate gave German girl greatcoat grey hall hand head heard hell Hetman hung journalists Junkers Khvat Kiev knew Left SRs listen lived looked Lucienna machine-gun Makhno Mama Martov Maximilian Voloshin morning Moscow Nazarov never night Odessa once Pan Kturenda Pavlo Skoropadski Petlyura Petrograd platform priests pulled quiet realised Red Army Red Guards regiment revolution rifle round Russia seemed Shchelkunov shot shouted silence Simbirsk sitting smell smiled smoke soldiers sound Soviet station stood stopped street suddenly talk thought took town train Treaty of Brest-Litovsk turned Tverskoy Boulevard Ukraine Ukrainian voice wagon waiting walked wall whistle wind window woman yard Yasha young
Bibliographic information
| Title | Story of a Life: In that dawn Volume 3 of Story of a Life, Konstantin Paustovsky |
| Author | Konstantin Paustovsky |
| Translated by | Manya Harari |
| Publisher | Harvill Press, 1967 |
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