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... moved me and the table into a corner of the room to clear space for dancing . The young fellow played a waltz . Vrubel's " Demon ” jumped down from the piano and started to dance with Lyuba . She moved lightly through the room , leaning ...
... moved me and the table into a corner of the room to clear space for dancing . The young fellow played a waltz . Vrubel's " Demon ” jumped down from the piano and started to dance with Lyuba . She moved lightly through the room , leaning ...
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... 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 ...
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... moved slowly . I did not asleep . I remembered my life instead , month by month , trying to define the one purpose which had moved me over the last few years . Try as I might , I could not name it . I knew only one thing firmly : that ...
... moved slowly . I did not asleep . I remembered my life instead , month by month , trying to define the one purpose which had moved me over the last few years . Try as I might , I could not name it . I knew only one thing firmly : that ...
Contents
The Death of My Father | 3 |
My Grandfather Maxim Grigorievich | 10 |
Carp | 16 |
Copyright | |
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