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Page 94
This was the non-stop goods train. Outside the station, the tracks curved in a
horseshoe arc and vanished in a pinewood. Always unexpectedly, the train burst
out of the woods, snaking and bending outwards round the curve. I felt I had
never ...
This was the non-stop goods train. Outside the station, the tracks curved in a
horseshoe arc and vanished in a pinewood. Always unexpectedly, the train burst
out of the woods, snaking and bending outwards round the curve. I felt I had
never ...
Page 96
Grey-spats would threaten to throw him off the train, and for a few moments
Dodya would subside. The night passed without incident. The train was barely
dragging itself along. I had no conversation with my companions and kept trying
to think ...
Grey-spats would threaten to throw him off the train, and for a few moments
Dodya would subside. The night passed without incident. The train was barely
dragging itself along. I had no conversation with my companions and kept trying
to think ...
Page 194
'If only he'd go through quickly! Are you from the passenger train?' I said yes and
smiled — a hell of a passenger train it was, our collection of dirty, broken-down
wagons leaning this way and that. 'Then go back and tell them to lock themselves
...
'If only he'd go through quickly! Are you from the passenger train?' I said yes and
smiled — a hell of a passenger train it was, our collection of dirty, broken-down
wagons leaning this way and that. 'Then go back and tell them to lock themselves
...
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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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