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Page 82
Home woven woollen carpets were sold in the bazzar , with such flaming roses
and madly green - vine leaves that the customer would quail and blanch .
Slender - waisted wasps in that bazaar hummed on one 82 The Restless Years.
Home woven woollen carpets were sold in the bazzar , with such flaming roses
and madly green - vine leaves that the customer would quail and blanch .
Slender - waisted wasps in that bazaar hummed on one 82 The Restless Years.
Page 91
... see the way bluetits shake the lemon - coloured leaves of aspens along river
banks , and make them float down to the ground . Possibly my attitude to
language is too strict , too reverent . But it cannot be otherwise . Had it been I
should have ...
... see the way bluetits shake the lemon - coloured leaves of aspens along river
banks , and make them float down to the ground . Possibly my attitude to
language is too strict , too reverent . But it cannot be otherwise . Had it been I
should have ...
Page 98
It stirred the rotting leaves left from last year . The leaves were black and smelled
of sourish wine . They could not be used to make a wreath for the poet . Someone
had placed a few such leaves instead of a wreath at his feet in the coffin .
It stirred the rotting leaves left from last year . The leaves were black and smelled
of sourish wine . They could not be used to make a wreath for the poet . Someone
had placed a few such leaves instead of a wreath at his feet in the coffin .
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| 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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