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Page 244
... moved behind it , like petrified cotton . These were the storm clouds seen through the smoke . Dead silence stood all around us . The frogs and the birds grew silent , fish stopped splashing . Even the leaves stopped quivering , as if ...
... moved behind it , like petrified cotton . These were the storm clouds seen through the smoke . Dead silence stood all around us . The frogs and the birds grew silent , fish stopped splashing . Even the leaves stopped quivering , as if ...
Page 436
... moved from the Great Britain Hotel to the factory , where I could live in the draftsmen's room in the shell - casing shop . I was helped in this by the draftsman Grinko , a flabby , tubercular man , formerly a Social Revolutionary . He ...
... moved from the Great Britain Hotel to the factory , where I could live in the draftsmen's room in the shell - casing shop . I was helped in this by the draftsman Grinko , a flabby , tubercular man , formerly a Social Revolutionary . He ...
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... moved past me , but not one of them stayed with me even for a few years . People appeared for a moment and then moved on , and I knew I was unlikely ever to see them again . Obviously to console myself , I remembered Lermontov's words ...
... moved past me , but not one of them stayed with me even for a few years . People appeared for a moment and then moved on , and I knew I was unlikely ever to see them again . Obviously to console myself , I remembered Lermontov's words ...
Contents
The Death of My Father | 3 |
My Grandfather Maxim Grigorievich ΙΟ | 10 |
Carp | 16 |
Copyright | |
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