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Page 27
This second fire was much more dangerous for us than the one across the road . ... The old baker assured us that the danger would be over once the top floor had collapsed - provided of course that the safety wall held .
This second fire was much more dangerous for us than the one across the road . ... The old baker assured us that the danger would be over once the top floor had collapsed - provided of course that the safety wall held .
Page 169
All we were expected to do was to give the alarm at the slightest sign of danger , so that the people in the house should not be taken unawares . A large copper basin and a hammer hung on the wall for such an emer- gency .
All we were expected to do was to give the alarm at the slightest sign of danger , so that the people in the house should not be taken unawares . A large copper basin and a hammer hung on the wall for such an emer- gency .
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Named after a famous Jesuit , a contemporary of Pushkin , the lane always gave me a sense of hidden danger , perhaps because of the tall garden walls on either side . The large gardens on one side backed onto the cliff - edge and the ...
Named after a famous Jesuit , a contemporary of Pushkin , the lane always gave me a sense of hidden danger , perhaps because of the tall garden walls on either side . The large gardens on one side backed onto the cliff - edge and the ...
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Contents
Whirlpool page | 7 |
Blue Torches | 23 |
The Journalists Café | 36 |
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| Title | The Story of a Life: In that dawn Volume 3 of The Story of a Life, Konstantin Paustovsky |
| Author | Konstantin Paustovsky |
| Publisher | Pantheon Books, 1964 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 18 Apr 2008 |
| Length | 661 pages |
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