Story of a Life, Volume 1Harvill P., 1965 |
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Page 113
... leave on the bench in Nightingale Ravine , and in the morning Uncle Kolya would check up on whether the condition had been honestly complied with . The first runner was Pavlya Tennov , Aunt Maroossya's brother who was a student at the ...
... leave on the bench in Nightingale Ravine , and in the morning Uncle Kolya would check up on whether the condition had been honestly complied with . The first runner was Pavlya Tennov , Aunt Maroossya's brother who was a student at the ...
Page 145
... leave , my last days in Alushta were extraordinarily sad and happy at the same time . Fog rolled in from the sea . The sun seeped through it . Lisa fed the stoves with yellow acacia wood . The trees shed their leaves ; they were greyish ...
... leave , my last days in Alushta were extraordinarily sad and happy at the same time . Fog rolled in from the sea . The sun seeped through it . Lisa fed the stoves with yellow acacia wood . The trees shed their leaves ; they were greyish ...
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Konstantin Paustovsky. December . It was hard for me to leave my school and my friends and to begin what I saw as my ... leaving . I usually walked home from school by way of an empty square at the back of the Opera House , nearly always ...
Konstantin Paustovsky. December . It was hard for me to leave my school and my friends and to begin what I saw as my ... leaving . I usually walked home from school by way of an empty square at the back of the Opera House , nearly always ...
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