Story of a Life, Volume 1Harvill P., 1965 |
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Page 11
... kissed me , scratching me with his beard . ' He's waiting for you . But where's your mother ? ' ' I sent her a telegram to Moscow . I suppose she'll arrive tomorrow . ' Uncle Ilko looked at the river . ' It's still rising , ' he said ...
... kissed me , scratching me with his beard . ' He's waiting for you . But where's your mother ? ' ' I sent her a telegram to Moscow . I suppose she'll arrive tomorrow . ' Uncle Ilko looked at the river . ' It's still rising , ' he said ...
Page 24
... kissed her hand and , following the custom , she kissed their brown wrinkled hands in return . Aunt Dosia , rosy - cheeked and prematurely grey , pretty in her shawl with crimson flowers on it , bowed from the waist . After a glass or ...
... kissed her hand and , following the custom , she kissed their brown wrinkled hands in return . Aunt Dosia , rosy - cheeked and prematurely grey , pretty in her shawl with crimson flowers on it , bowed from the waist . After a glass or ...
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... kissed us every one . ' And now , a few words of Latin , ' he said . He waved his arms and broke into ' Gaudeamus igitur juvenes dum sumus . ' We joined in the chorus of our first student song . The ball opened . Stanishevsky was master ...
... kissed us every one . ' And now , a few words of Latin , ' he said . He waved his arms and broke into ' Gaudeamus igitur juvenes dum sumus . ' We joined in the chorus of our first student song . The ball opened . Stanishevsky was master ...
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Alushta Anna Petrovna asked Aunt Dosia Aunt Maroossya Aunt Nadya Belaya Tserkov blue Borya Bregman Bryansk cassock Cherkassy Cherpunov clouds coat cold Cossack Crimea dark Dnieper door dress Dyma everything eyes face father felt flowers frock coat Galya garden gave Gelendzhik girl Gleb Gorodishche grandmother grey hair hand head heard horses hung Kiev kissed knew Kostik leaves Lena light lime blossom Lisa Littauer living looked Lyuba Mama Mogilev morning Moscow never night Olendsky organ grinder Ostap pale park pince-nez play realised river round Rumyantsev Russian Ryovna Sasha Sevryuk shoulders shouted silent sitting smell smile smoke Stanishevsky stood stopped street Suboch summer theatre told took trees Tregubov turned Uncle Kolya Uncle Yusia voice Volsk Vrubel walked walls watched wind window wolf ticket woman woods yellow young Zaporozhye