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Page 34
Evidently both Red Guards and Junkers were waiting for the next shot, to know
what the target was. At last it came — the same aloof, high-pitched whine
followed by the flash of the explosion. Once again, it was near the Kremlin. 'They
can't be ...
Evidently both Red Guards and Junkers were waiting for the next shot, to know
what the target was. At last it came — the same aloof, high-pitched whine
followed by the flash of the explosion. Once again, it was near the Kremlin. 'They
can't be ...
Page 123
I brushed it with my hand as I was waiting on her, and I shivered all over — it
seemed somehow so cold and springy. I begged her pardon of course,but she
just frowned, glanced at me, said: "All right", and straightened her hair. She was a
...
I brushed it with my hand as I was waiting on her, and I shivered all over — it
seemed somehow so cold and springy. I begged her pardon of course,but she
just frowned, glanced at me, said: "All right", and straightened her hair. She was a
...
Page 168
... the dark stairs Uttered with scraps of sacking, waiting for some other member of
the staff to turn up. But no one came. Puzzled, I went out and saw some twenty
wounded soldiers, their faces drawn, their clothes covered with dust, tramping ...
... the dark stairs Uttered with scraps of sacking, waiting for some other member of
the staff to turn up. But no one came. Puzzled, I went out and saw some twenty
wounded soldiers, their faces drawn, their clothes covered with dust, tramping ...
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Whirlpool page | 7 |
Blue Torches | 23 |
The Journalists Cafe | 36 |
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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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