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Page 10
Raising tragic eyes to heaven, he shrugged his shoulders, climbed with dignity
off the pedestal and disappeared into the crowd. The meetings at the Pushkin
Monument dealt with a variety of themes but, as they say now, always kept 'to a
high ...
Raising tragic eyes to heaven, he shrugged his shoulders, climbed with dignity
off the pedestal and disappeared into the crowd. The meetings at the Pushkin
Monument dealt with a variety of themes but, as they say now, always kept 'to a
high ...
Page 73
A small, pale child of about ten, in a faded pink frock, was gazing at me
imploringly out of eyes as grey and round as pewter saucers. 'Please, Uncle,' she
said in a hoarse, conspiratorial voice. 'Just one little one! Please, Uncle! Give!' I
gave her ...
A small, pale child of about ten, in a faded pink frock, was gazing at me
imploringly out of eyes as grey and round as pewter saucers. 'Please, Uncle,' she
said in a hoarse, conspiratorial voice. 'Just one little one! Please, Uncle! Give!' I
gave her ...
Page 209
Biting his lips and grunting (a grunt was his strongest expression of
dissatisfaction) he agreed but gave Nazarov strict instructions to keep the
thermometer in cotton wool in a drawer and to cherish it like the apple of his eye.
Nazarov took my ...
Biting his lips and grunting (a grunt was his strongest expression of
dissatisfaction) he agreed but gave Nazarov strict instructions to keep the
thermometer in cotton wool in a drawer and to cherish it like the apple of his eye.
Nazarov took my ...
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Contents
Whirlpool page | 7 |
Blue Torches | 23 |
The Journalists Cafe | 36 |
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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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