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I went back to my room and looked through the window from the shelter of the wall . Black clouds had blotted out the moon . The buildings , their windows dark , barely showed against the dark sky . Gunfire flashed without a break and ...
I went back to my room and looked through the window from the shelter of the wall . Black clouds had blotted out the moon . The buildings , their windows dark , barely showed against the dark sky . Gunfire flashed without a break and ...
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burst through the windows . Plaster showered from the ceiling . I remained on the floor . The firing increased . I realised that the flame of my match , seen through the window , had served as a signal to Red Army men who had quietly ...
burst through the windows . Plaster showered from the ceiling . I remained on the floor . The firing increased . I realised that the flame of my match , seen through the window , had served as a signal to Red Army men who had quietly ...
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We found a wooden board with a prehistoric timetable of arrivals and departures , and moved it to the window , so that we could look out from behind it . Like this , no one would notice us . In case of danger we could slip out to the ...
We found a wooden board with a prehistoric timetable of arrivals and departures , and moved it to the window , so that we could look out from behind it . Like this , no one would notice us . In case of danger we could slip out to the ...
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Contents
Whirlpool page | 7 |
Blue Torches | 23 |
The Journalists Café | 36 |
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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