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Page 188
Stumping excitedly round her chest, tying and untying her warm shawl, the
woman was scolding furiously: 'The whole train is packed with riff-raff from town
— tramps and tarts without a penny to their name, all they have is holes in their
pants ...
Stumping excitedly round her chest, tying and untying her warm shawl, the
woman was scolding furiously: 'The whole train is packed with riff-raff from town
— tramps and tarts without a penny to their name, all they have is holes in their
pants ...
Page 189
Some actually hoped for a gang to shoot up the train 'properly' — the woman on
her chest made a perfect target and, we all thought, was bound to be killed before
anyone else. Somewhere past Bobrinskaya station, our thirst for vengeance ...
Some actually hoped for a gang to shoot up the train 'properly' — the woman on
her chest made a perfect target and, we all thought, was bound to be killed before
anyone else. Somewhere past Bobrinskaya station, our thirst for vengeance ...
Page 190
Sweating, they hauled it off the engine and set it down on the track. 'Two hefty
fellows and you can't lift a chest,' said the woman. 'Bring it over here.' 'You try,'
said the engine driver. 'It needs a crowbar. I'll get one now.' He climbed into the
cab, ...
Sweating, they hauled it off the engine and set it down on the track. 'Two hefty
fellows and you can't lift a chest,' said the woman. 'Bring it over here.' 'You try,'
said the engine driver. 'It needs a crowbar. I'll get one now.' He climbed into the
cab, ...
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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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