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Page 64
Sverdlov took his hand away from the bell and smiled as he listened to the
speeches . This , perhaps more than anything else , reassured the deputies :
Sverdlov seldom smiled . Nearly all the scheduled speakers had had their turn
when ...
Sverdlov took his hand away from the bell and smiled as he listened to the
speeches . This , perhaps more than anything else , reassured the deputies :
Sverdlov seldom smiled . Nearly all the scheduled speakers had had their turn
when ...
Page 87
There , at a desk in the front hall , sat an extraordinarily thin man in a field jacket ,
with a pointed little straw - coloured beard and amused eyes . He quietly looked
me over and suddenly smiled . I smiled back . ' Well , what ' s your story ?
There , at a desk in the front hall , sat an extraordinarily thin man in a field jacket ,
with a pointed little straw - coloured beard and amused eyes . He quietly looked
me over and suddenly smiled . I smiled back . ' Well , what ' s your story ?
Page 197
At the same time he smiled . I can think of nothing more terrifying than that smile .
It was not a smile at all . It was a pitiful call for mercy , a cry of terror , begging for
his life , an abject despairing appeal . Makhno raised his revolver and without ...
At the same time he smiled . I can think of nothing more terrifying than that smile .
It was not a smile at all . It was a pitiful call for mercy , a cry of terror , begging for
his life , an abject despairing appeal . Makhno raised his revolver and without ...
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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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