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Page 124
I called Mama again and I asked her to get rid of the moth. Mama pressed her lips
close together, and she took off a tight, hot compress and covered me with
blankets. I lost count of the nights, filled with rumblings I couldn't understand and
with ...
I called Mama again and I asked her to get rid of the moth. Mama pressed her lips
close together, and she took off a tight, hot compress and covered me with
blankets. I lost count of the nights, filled with rumblings I couldn't understand and
with ...
Page 221
Mama embraced me and burst into tears. She had turned completely white since
I had last seen her. "My God!" Mama said, "you're already completely grown up.
And how like your father you are! God, how like him!" Galya had become almost ...
Mama embraced me and burst into tears. She had turned completely white since
I had last seen her. "My God!" Mama said, "you're already completely grown up.
And how like your father you are! God, how like him!" Galya had become almost ...
Page 407
The lives of these new friends sincerely interested Mama and Galya. Mama's old
habit of instructing people, as she put it, in "honorable and intelligent behavior"
led her to write them long letters full of advice, persuasion, and examples from
her ...
The lives of these new friends sincerely interested Mama and Galya. Mama's old
habit of instructing people, as she put it, in "honorable and intelligent behavior"
led her to write them long letters full of advice, persuasion, and examples from
her ...
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Contents
The Death of My Father | 3 |
Carp | 16 |
The Pink Oleanders | 29 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Story of a Life, Volume 2 |
| Author | Konstantin Paustovsky |
| Publisher | Vintage Books, 1967 |
| Original from | Pennsylvania State University |
| Digitized | 23 Nov 2009 |
| Length | 661 pages |
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