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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
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 , but instead of coming back with a crowbar , he released ...
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 , but instead of coming back with a crowbar , he released ...
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Contents
Blue Torches | 23 |
The Journalists Café | 36 |
The Hall with the Fountain | 58 |
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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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