The Story of a Life: The restless yearsPantheon Books, 1974 - Authors, Russian |
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Page 133
... Gate . The sentry , occasionally casting penetrating and suspicious glances at me , checked my documents . I crossed the square to the Main Palace past several sentry boxes . Every time I approached one , a bell in it would ring ...
... Gate . The sentry , occasionally casting penetrating and suspicious glances at me , checked my documents . I crossed the square to the Main Palace past several sentry boxes . Every time I approached one , a bell in it would ring ...
Page 137
... gate . Down the quiet street would stretch a line of dusty cars of different makes , all belonging to the guests - sun - tanned and noisy denizens of Provence , con- noisseurs of the famous Marseilles dish known as bouillabaisse ( it ...
... gate . Down the quiet street would stretch a line of dusty cars of different makes , all belonging to the guests - sun - tanned and noisy denizens of Provence , con- noisseurs of the famous Marseilles dish known as bouillabaisse ( it ...
Page 147
... gates as we left for the melancholy plains of the Camargue . But there is , apparently , no such thing as an unmixed blessing . In that delightful little town I discovered that I had left Imard's address in Paris or perhaps lost it ...
... gates as we left for the melancholy plains of the Camargue . But there is , apparently , no such thing as an unmixed blessing . In that delightful little town I discovered that I had left Imard's address in Paris or perhaps lost it ...
Contents
Map page | 9 |
The Last Meeting II | 11 |
The Silent Fields | 18 |
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