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She came out in a vague blue dress , with a gold watch chain around her neck and a red sash pinned to her shoulder . Mama explained to me that this sash was the reward for graduation with honors from the institute where Aunt Yefrosinya ...
She came out in a vague blue dress , with a gold watch chain around her neck and a red sash pinned to her shoulder . Mama explained to me that this sash was the reward for graduation with honors from the institute where Aunt Yefrosinya ...
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... just galloped sixty miles to get to the concert of some Nina Zagornaya , cavalry officers with black sideburns , merchants in brown dress coats , frightened brides in rose - colored dresses as magnificent as spume from a waterfall .
... just galloped sixty miles to get to the concert of some Nina Zagornaya , cavalry officers with black sideburns , merchants in brown dress coats , frightened brides in rose - colored dresses as magnificent as spume from a waterfall .
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Following the colonel , who was Nicholas II , came a very tall , dried - up woman in a white , hard dress and with an ... her walked their daughters with thin , bloodless lips , all dressed in the same kind of white , hard dresses .
Following the colonel , who was Nicholas II , came a very tall , dried - up woman in a white , hard dress and with an ... her walked their daughters with thin , bloodless lips , all dressed in the same kind of white , hard dresses .
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The Pink Oleanders | 29 |
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