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Page 27
Everything about that simple girl , her rough hands , her quick smile , the way she
inclined her face , submissive and tender , contained so much promise – vague
as yet - of love for someone still unknown , but certainly not for the man to whom ...
Everything about that simple girl , her rough hands , her quick smile , the way she
inclined her face , submissive and tender , contained so much promise – vague
as yet - of love for someone still unknown , but certainly not for the man to whom ...
Page 78
There is a legend that some people can take a tightly curled bud in their hands ,
and the warmth of their hands will make it ... the pollen off tall , overblown flowers
, screwing his eyes up against the sun , sowing riches with a generous hand .
There is a legend that some people can take a tightly curled bud in their hands ,
and the warmth of their hands will make it ... the pollen off tall , overblown flowers
, screwing his eyes up against the sun , sowing riches with a generous hand .
Page 210
And yet he read out to me a venomous epigram he had just composed , directed
against a critic , and when we were saying goodbye , he gripped my suntanned
hand in his own , which was yellow and weak ( with thin bones showing through
...
And yet he read out to me a venomous epigram he had just composed , directed
against a critic , and when we were saying goodbye , he gripped my suntanned
hand in his own , which was yellow and weak ( with thin bones showing through
...
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Contents
Map page | 9 |
The Last Meeting II | 11 |
The Silent Fields | 18 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Story of a Life, Volume 6 Story of a Life, Konstantin Paustovsky |
| Author | Konstantin Paustovsky |
| Translated by | Manya Harari |
| Publisher | Harvill Press, 1974 |
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