The Story of a Life: In that dawnPantheon Books, 1964 - Authors, Russian |
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Page 184
... priests , who were completely bewildered by her . Her jokes were as good as Khvat's , she sang music - hall songs and stunned the priests by her anecdotes . The priests sighed , but their eyes often lit up with genuine admiration for ...
... priests , who were completely bewildered by her . Her jokes were as good as Khvat's , she sang music - hall songs and stunned the priests by her anecdotes . The priests sighed , but their eyes often lit up with genuine admiration for ...
Page 185
... priests talked softly among themselves . I knew enough Polish to follow , and it struck me , how much of the eternal sensuousness of human nature - etherealised but still there- found expression in Catholicism . Years later I was to ...
... priests talked softly among themselves . I knew enough Polish to follow , and it struck me , how much of the eternal sensuousness of human nature - etherealised but still there- found expression in Catholicism . Years later I was to ...
Page 186
... priests . He picked it up and put it away in his purse , promising to hang it on a silver chain as an ex - voto before the ikon of Our Lady of Chestokhov . Lucienna patted her hair , sat up on her bunk and burst shrilly into a ...
... priests . He picked it up and put it away in his purse , promising to hang it on a silver chain as an ex - voto before the ikon of Our Lady of Chestokhov . Lucienna patted her hair , sat up on her bunk and burst shrilly into a ...
Contents
Whirlpool page | 7 |
Blue Torches | 23 |
The Journalists Café | 36 |
Copyright | |
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