Story of a Life, Volume 1Harvill P., 1965 |
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Page 64
... theatre . The first play I was taken to was The Storming of Ismail . I took a dislike to it when I noticed a bespectacled man in shiny velvet trousers who stood in the wings beside Suvorov and at a given moment shoved him so hard in the ...
... theatre . The first play I was taken to was The Storming of Ismail . I took a dislike to it when I noticed a bespectacled man in shiny velvet trousers who stood in the wings beside Suvorov and at a given moment shoved him so hard in the ...
Page 163
... theatre had seen it all - the gypsy girls with lovely voices and the bankrupt country gentlemen who used to gallop sixty miles to hear them sing , the ensigns with black side - whiskers , the merchants in brown bowlers , and their shy ...
... theatre had seen it all - the gypsy girls with lovely voices and the bankrupt country gentlemen who used to gallop sixty miles to hear them sing , the ensigns with black side - whiskers , the merchants in brown bowlers , and their shy ...
Page 238
... theatre was unusually quiet . Sitting on the floor by the orchestra rail was a tall man with a ribbon across his ... theatre at once . ' Going down the same dark stairs and corridors , we came out into the brightly lit square . It was ...
... theatre was unusually quiet . Sitting on the floor by the orchestra rail was a tall man with a ribbon across his ... theatre at once . ' Going down the same dark stairs and corridors , we came out into the brightly lit square . It was ...
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