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Page 11
Kerensky dashed about the country , trying to hold it together by his feverish
eloquence . What he lacked in strength of ideas and conviction , he tried to make
up for by pompous phrases , dramatic postures , grandiloquent but ill - timed ...
Kerensky dashed about the country , trying to hold it together by his feverish
eloquence . What he lacked in strength of ideas and conviction , he tried to make
up for by pompous phrases , dramatic postures , grandiloquent but ill - timed ...
Page 95
... tea and telling elegantly bawdy jokes . They took not the slightest notice of me ,
barely said ' how d ' you do ' , and did their utmost to show that they had no wish
to know me . Why , then , had they agreed to take me with them ? I kept trying to ...
... tea and telling elegantly bawdy jokes . They took not the slightest notice of me ,
barely said ' how d ' you do ' , and did their utmost to show that they had no wish
to know me . Why , then , had they agreed to take me with them ? I kept trying to ...
Page 184
They obviously liked her , and kept trying to find excuses for her in Catholic
dogma , in the Old and New Testaments , almost even in the Papal Encyclicals .
They finally decided that she was a modern Mary Magdalenthe beautiful sinner ...
They obviously liked her , and kept trying to find excuses for her in Catholic
dogma , in the Old and New Testaments , almost even in the Papal Encyclicals .
They finally decided that she was a modern Mary Magdalenthe beautiful sinner ...
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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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