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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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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