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Page 34
... came the whining of a shell . It crossed Moscow and the explosion thudded
somewhere near the Kremlin . The crossfire ceased suddenly . Evidently both
Red Guards and Junkers were waiting for the next shot , to know what the target
was .
... came the whining of a shell . It crossed Moscow and the explosion thudded
somewhere near the Kremlin . The crossfire ceased suddenly . Evidently both
Red Guards and Junkers were waiting for the next shot , to know what the target
was .
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
I stood in the dark stairs littered 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 ...
I stood in the dark stairs littered 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 ...
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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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