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Page 162
One night , against the regulations , our company was ordered to guard a
warehouse beyond the Baykovo graveyard , and actually issued with two
cartridges to each rifle . It was a warm night . The smell of flowering shrubs drifted
from ...
One night , against the regulations , our company was ordered to guard a
warehouse beyond the Baykovo graveyard , and actually issued with two
cartridges to each rifle . It was a warm night . The smell of flowering shrubs drifted
from ...
Page 169
We went back to our familiar routine — turns on duty in the yard , flickering oil -
lamps going out at each explosion , water stored in every pot and pan , rumours
and sleepless nights . Acting as night - watchman was perhaps our most peaceful
...
We went back to our familiar routine — turns on duty in the yard , flickering oil -
lamps going out at each explosion , water stored in every pot and pan , rumours
and sleepless nights . Acting as night - watchman was perhaps our most peaceful
...
Page 213
If perfect happiness exists , we experienced it that night . I wanted to prolong this
feeling . Putting on my coat and picking up a blanket , I went out into the loggia —
a deep bay with a projecting balcony on the first floor . The loggia was dark .
If perfect happiness exists , we experienced it that night . I wanted to prolong this
feeling . Putting on my coat and picking up a blanket , I went out into the loggia —
a deep bay with a projecting balcony on the first floor . The loggia was dark .
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Contents
Blue Torches | 23 |
The Journalists Café | 36 |
The Hall with the Fountain | 58 |
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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