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... gray bristles , who was waiting for me . My father was only fifty . I always remembered him as slightly stooping but well - proportioned , ele- gant , with dark hair , an unusual sad smile , and gray , attentive eyes . Now he sat in an ...
... gray bristles , who was waiting for me . My father was only fifty . I always remembered him as slightly stooping but well - proportioned , ele- gant , with dark hair , an unusual sad smile , and gray , attentive eyes . Now he sat in an ...
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... gray heads were raised . The beggars were looking up at the altar where there was a picture of the God Jehovah in a gray beard . He looked amazingly like these beggars . He had the same sunken , threatening eyes in the same dry , dark ...
... gray heads were raised . The beggars were looking up at the altar where there was a picture of the God Jehovah in a gray beard . He looked amazingly like these beggars . He had the same sunken , threatening eyes in the same dry , dark ...
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... Gray scraps of paper and posters hung on the walls . Decrees of the new Soviet government were pasted on top of them . They were printed on crumbly gray paper . Day by day , these sharp , ruthless decrees were cutting away whole layers ...
... Gray scraps of paper and posters hung on the walls . Decrees of the new Soviet government were pasted on top of them . They were printed on crumbly gray paper . Day by day , these sharp , ruthless decrees were cutting away whole layers ...
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The Death of My Father | 3 |
Carp | 16 |
The Pink Oleanders | 29 |
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