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He came in , crossed himself in front of the empty ikon corner , turned to us ,
bowed from the waist , and asked Mama if she would take some dried
mushrooms in exchange for salt for the brethren . He might have stepped down
from a picture of ...
He came in , crossed himself in front of the empty ikon corner , turned to us ,
bowed from the waist , and asked Mama if she would take some dried
mushrooms in exchange for salt for the brethren . He might have stepped down
from a picture of ...
Page 195
A grey tom 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 .
A grey tom 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 .
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
Blue Torches | 23 |
The Journalists Café | 36 |
The Hall with the Fountain | 58 |
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, 1964 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 18 Apr 2008 |
| Length | 661 pages |
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