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Page 86
... paper . But you could only call it white if you were looking at it in the dark . Grey , coarse and thick as wrapping paper , it was interlaid with large fine shavings of wood ( you could even see the grain ) . The ink would not take on ...
... paper . But you could only call it white if you were looking at it in the dark . Grey , coarse and thick as wrapping paper , it was interlaid with large fine shavings of wood ( you could even see the grain ) . The ink would not take on ...
Page 103
... paper . ' Lyova caught his pince - nez , put it on crooked , got off the windowsill , dusted his trousers and said querulously : ' You might at least give me some paper . What am I to write on ? There's never a quarter of a sheet for a ...
... paper . ' Lyova caught his pince - nez , put it on crooked , got off the windowsill , dusted his trousers and said querulously : ' You might at least give me some paper . What am I to write on ? There's never a quarter of a sheet for a ...
Page 105
... paper , the traditional savage fights with the proof readers , the tea cooling on the windowsill , the geranium in the window , the smell of its rough leaves everything had a romantic glamour for me , I suppose because it was here that ...
... paper , the traditional savage fights with the proof readers , the tea cooling on the windowsill , the geranium in the window , the smell of its rough leaves everything had a romantic glamour for me , I suppose because it was here that ...
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