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immediately mown down by machine - gun fire from Nikitsky Gate . Sitting in the lodge , we talked over the events of the past few days and were amazed by our own stupidity . The fighting had taken us all by surprise .
immediately mown down by machine - gun fire from Nikitsky Gate . Sitting in the lodge , we talked over the events of the past few days and were amazed by our own stupidity . The fighting had taken us all by surprise .
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The fire gradually died down , but pungent , rainbow - coloured clouds of smoke rose from the ruins for days on end . Our metal roof buckled and the window frames smoked , but luckily did not catch . We coughed and our eyes watered from ...
The fire gradually died down , but pungent , rainbow - coloured clouds of smoke rose from the ruins for days on end . Our metal roof buckled and the window frames smoked , but luckily did not catch . We coughed and our eyes watered from ...
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We must report to Comrade Fire . ' ' Look here , ' I said , determined to laugh it off . " This is not the age of Monte Cristo . Put the light on , I'll explain , and you will kindly let me out . ' The answer to the effect that I could ...
We must report to Comrade Fire . ' ' Look here , ' I said , determined to laugh it off . " This is not the age of Monte Cristo . Put the light on , I'll explain , and you will kindly let me out . ' The answer to the effect that I could ...
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Contents
Whirlpool page | 7 |
Blue Torches | 23 |
The Journalists Café | 36 |
Copyright | |
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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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