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Page 59
Take the girls out . Get a dose of clap and you have a souvenir for life . Better
than a medal ! ' Get a move on ! people shouted at the back , pounding the floor
with their rifle butts . ' Start talking ! Now you ' ve got us here , don ' t waste our
time .
Take the girls out . Get a dose of clap and you have a souvenir for life . Better
than a medal ! ' Get a move on ! people shouted at the back , pounding the floor
with their rifle butts . ' Start talking ! Now you ' ve got us here , don ' t waste our
time .
Page 124
Quick , silent service , and no talking to the gentry , those were the orders . Keep
your dirty mug to ... It didn ' t look as if I ' d get a chance to talk to her again — the
head - waiter , Nikodim , was always hanging round . Then I had a bit of luck _ ...
Quick , silent service , and no talking to the gentry , those were the orders . Keep
your dirty mug to ... It didn ' t look as if I ' d get a chance to talk to her again — the
head - waiter , Nikodim , was always hanging round . Then I had a bit of luck _ ...
Page 159
It was announced that members of the Government were coming to talk to us and
to enquire into what had happened . A sigh of relief went up from the ranks . A
wooden platform was erected in the middle of the square . Soon the delegates ...
It was announced that members of the Government were coming to talk to us and
to enquire into what had happened . A sigh of relief went up from the ranks . A
wooden platform was erected in the middle of the square . Soon the delegates ...
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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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