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... pince - nez . They all smoked and wore severe black skirts with gray blouses , and just as if they had made an agreement about it pinned their watches with safety pins at exactly the same place on their bosoms . The sisters were always ...
... pince - nez . They all smoked and wore severe black skirts with gray blouses , and just as if they had made an agreement about it pinned their watches with safety pins at exactly the same place on their bosoms . The sisters were always ...
Page 141
... pince - nez gleaming . They called Karavayev Don Quixote and said that his bother with the store was a petty business and that what Russia needed was not co - operatives but a great ex- plosion . Then Ivanov would begin to polish his ...
... pince - nez gleaming . They called Karavayev Don Quixote and said that his bother with the store was a petty business and that what Russia needed was not co - operatives but a great ex- plosion . Then Ivanov would begin to polish his ...
Page 252
... pince - nez and stared at me with threatening surprise . " Ho - ho ! It's not much just want- ing to be a writer . Perhaps I too would like to be Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy . " " But I've already written . . . and been published . ” " In ...
... pince - nez and stared at me with threatening surprise . " Ho - ho ! It's not much just want- ing to be a writer . Perhaps I too would like to be Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy . " " But I've already written . . . and been published . ” " In ...
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