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Page 24
Two little girls were sitting on the floor with their old Nanny . The old woman had
wrapped them up , head and all , in a thick woollen shawl . ' We ' re safe here , '
said the landlord . “ The bullets won ' t go through the house . ' ' Are the Germans
...
Two little girls were sitting on the floor with their old Nanny . The old woman had
wrapped them up , head and all , in a thick woollen shawl . ' We ' re safe here , '
said the landlord . “ The bullets won ' t go through the house . ' ' Are the Germans
...
Page 40
Of course , a lady can do what she likes — she can sit at her spider - legged desk
and play politics and shed tears over her own articles about the Russian peasant
. But just one word from a real peasant and you ' d all have fits . Goodbye .
Of course , a lady can do what she likes — she can sit at her spider - legged desk
and play politics and shed tears over her own articles about the Russian peasant
. But just one word from a real peasant and you ' d all have fits . Goodbye .
Page 62
Sitting in the carriage was a girl in a long , flounced , printed dress , and a white
kerchief , like a nun ' s coif , low over her forehead . Her lips faintly parted , she
was smiling . There was so much tenderness in her smile that it went straight to
my ...
Sitting in the carriage was a girl in a long , flounced , printed dress , and a white
kerchief , like a nun ' s coif , low over her forehead . Her lips faintly parted , she
was smiling . There was so much tenderness in her smile that it went straight to
my ...
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Contents
Blue Torches | 23 |
The Journalists Café | 36 |
The Hall with the Fountain | 58 |
Copyright | |
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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, 1964 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 18 Apr 2008 |
| Length | 661 pages |
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