Story of a Life, Volume 1Harvill P., 1965 |
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Page 40
... hair was brushed painfully hard . Looking at myself in the mirror I saw a terribly excited , flushed little boy and felt very happy . Aunt Euphrosine came out of her apartment . She alone had taken no part in the preparations for Easter ...
... hair was brushed painfully hard . Looking at myself in the mirror I saw a terribly excited , flushed little boy and felt very happy . Aunt Euphrosine came out of her apartment . She alone had taken no part in the preparations for Easter ...
Page 115
... hair perm- anently in disorder ; we kept finding the black hair - ribbons she lost wherever she had been reading last . The younger sister , Sasha , was capricious and amusing and Gleb was in love with her . It was unthinkable that she ...
... hair perm- anently in disorder ; we kept finding the black hair - ribbons she lost wherever she had been reading last . The younger sister , Sasha , was capricious and amusing and Gleb was in love with her . It was unthinkable that she ...
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... hair carefully combed , his blood- less hands crossed on his breast and holding a tall thin wax candle ; the candle bent in the heat and wax dripped on the yellow fingers . A priest in a black cope and with shaggy hair was praying and ...
... hair carefully combed , his blood- less hands crossed on his breast and holding a tall thin wax candle ; the candle bent in the heat and wax dripped on the yellow fingers . A priest in a black cope and with shaggy hair was praying and ...
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