Story of a Life, Volume 1Harvill P., 1965 |
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Page 80
... platform , and it only now occurred to me how pretty she was , how small and how kind . I stood at the window long after both Mama and the platform had vanished from sight . Sidings , goods trains and shrill shunting- engines swept by ...
... platform , and it only now occurred to me how pretty she was , how small and how kind . I stood at the window long after both Mama and the platform had vanished from sight . Sidings , goods trains and shrill shunting- engines swept by ...
Page 82
... platform , the rivers , the signalmen , the station - masters in red caps , the geese , and the children who run after the train , shouting : " Throw us a kopeck , Uncle ! ' The way to Bryansk was long and roundabout . It went through ...
... platform , the rivers , the signalmen , the station - masters in red caps , the geese , and the children who run after the train , shouting : " Throw us a kopeck , Uncle ! ' The way to Bryansk was long and roundabout . It went through ...
Page 154
... platform and concealed everyone . My heart was as chilly as the carriage , filled with the dingy winter daylight and with piercing draughts . The snow - covered plains were depressing to look at . A ground wind rustled all night ...
... platform and concealed everyone . My heart was as chilly as the carriage , filled with the dingy winter daylight and with piercing draughts . The snow - covered plains were depressing to look at . A ground wind rustled all night ...
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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