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Page 155
It had long stood empty and neglected. Tall grass grew on the parade ground.
Swallows nested under the eaves. The smell of warm, limp summer leaves drifted
through the broken windows. The fort had never been besieged. For many years
...
It had long stood empty and neglected. Tall grass grew on the parade ground.
Swallows nested under the eaves. The smell of warm, limp summer leaves drifted
through the broken windows. The fort had never been besieged. For many years
...
Page 195
A grey torn cat with rusty patches came up the stairs, gave us a passing glance,
walked on every table and the empty counter, jumped onto the window-sill,
turned his back on us, sat down and, like ourselves, stared at the empty tracks.
The tip ...
A grey torn cat with rusty patches came up the stairs, gave us a passing glance,
walked on every table and the empty counter, jumped onto the window-sill,
turned his back on us, sat down and, like ourselves, stared at the empty tracks.
The tip ...
Page 208
Almost as bad were empty purses and torn-up documents. But these were rare.
The lucky finds were few but varied. They were usually completely unexpected
objects: faded flowers from a bouquet, fragments of cut glass, dry lobster claws, ...
Almost as bad were empty purses and torn-up documents. But these were rare.
The lucky finds were few but varied. They were usually completely unexpected
objects: faded flowers from a bouquet, fragments of cut glass, dry lobster claws, ...
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Contents
Whirlpool page | 7 |
Blue Torches | 23 |
The Journalists Cafe | 36 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| 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, 1967 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 18 Apr 2008 |
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