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Page 32
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 ...
Page 144
... cavalry officers with black sideburns , merchants in brown dress coats ,
frightened brides in rose - colored dresses as magnificent as spume from a
waterfall . My thoughts of the theater were linked to July nights , when heat
lightning flashed ...
... cavalry officers with black sideburns , merchants in brown dress coats ,
frightened brides in rose - colored dresses as magnificent as spume from a
waterfall . My thoughts of the theater were linked to July nights , when heat
lightning flashed ...
Page 213
Following the colonel , who was Nicholas II , came a very tall , dried - up woman
in a white , hard dress and with an ... Indian file behind 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 ... Indian file behind her walked their
daughters with thin , bloodless lips , all dressed in the same kind of white , hard
dresses .
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Contents
The Death of My Father | 3 |
My Grandfather Maxim Grigorievich | 10 |
Carp | 16 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | The Story of a Life, Volume 1 Pantheon modern classics The Story of a Life, Константин Паустовский |
| Author | Константин Паустовский |
| Publisher | Pantheon Books, 1964 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 18 Apr 2008 |
| Length | 661 pages |
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