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Page 188
... Vaso the elderly Gurian in charge of the hotel – was very angry with the guests if they made a noise running down the stairs , particularly if at the same time they sang a song fashionable at the time : We went out in a boat , In a ...
... Vaso the elderly Gurian in charge of the hotel – was very angry with the guests if they made a noise running down the stairs , particularly if at the same time they sang a song fashionable at the time : We went out in a boat , In a ...
Page 189
... Vaso came into my room with an enormous , fat volume in his hands for the registration of guests . As he was entering my name in that book in the attractive Georgian script , he asked me in his ill - humoured voice : ' Why have you come ...
... Vaso came into my room with an enormous , fat volume in his hands for the registration of guests . As he was entering my name in that book in the attractive Georgian script , he asked me in his ill - humoured voice : ' Why have you come ...
Page 191
... Vaso , and taking up the visitors ' book he hurled it angrily on the table . ' Why did you come to Poti ? To print counterfeit money ? " ' I know ! ' cried Vaso's daughter , delighted . ' I know , father . He has come because he wants ...
... Vaso , and taking up the visitors ' book he hurled it angrily on the table . ' Why did you come to Poti ? To print counterfeit money ? " ' I know ! ' cried Vaso's daughter , delighted . ' I know , father . He has come because he wants ...
Contents
Map page | 9 |
The Last Meeting II | 11 |
The Silent Fields | 18 |
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