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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 bullets ...
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 bullets ...
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burst through the windows. Plaster showered from the ceiling. I remained on the
floor. The firing increased. 1 realised that the flame of my match, seen through the
window, had served as a signal to Red Army men who had quietly surrounded ...
burst through the windows. Plaster showered from the ceiling. I remained on the
floor. The firing increased. 1 realised that the flame of my match, seen through the
window, had served as a signal to Red Army men who had quietly surrounded ...
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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 kitchen where ...
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 kitchen where ...
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Contents
Whirlpool page | 7 |
Blue Torches | 23 |
The Journalists Cafe | 36 |
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, 1967 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 18 Apr 2008 |
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