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Page 55
So inevitably boring were they that, to liven things up, a young sub-editor once
inserted the words 'At long last' before the usual 'Death has deprived us'. Next
morning there was a storm in the office. The sub-editor was sacked. We all felt ...
So inevitably boring were they that, to liven things up, a young sub-editor once
inserted the words 'At long last' before the usual 'Death has deprived us'. Next
morning there was a storm in the office. The sub-editor was sacked. We all felt ...
Page 144
Once again, the sobbing baritone complained of nowhere to go and no one to
love, once again the tenor lisped that not for him, oh not for him would come the
spring — not for him would the birch- tree flower or the heart be filled with
throbbing ...
Once again, the sobbing baritone complained of nowhere to go and no one to
love, once again the tenor lisped that not for him, oh not for him would come the
spring — not for him would the birch- tree flower or the heart be filled with
throbbing ...
Page 155
There, I had once seen a midshipman and the meeting had fired me with a
passion to go to sea. There, to the humming of bees over the jasmine, I had read
and recited poetry, almost to the point of stupor. As a result, the grey brick fort with
its ...
There, I had once seen a midshipman and the meeting had fired me with a
passion to go to sea. There, to the humming of bees over the jasmine, I had read
and recited poetry, almost to the point of stupor. As a result, the grey brick fort with
its ...
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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, 1967 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 18 Apr 2008 |
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