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Page 113
... Dark - green pine woods surrounded them , and here and there in the meadows rose bunches of dark spruces , so that they made them still lighter and sunnier . The woods rose up to the summits , and wrapped them as if in shaggy sheepskin ...
... Dark - green pine woods surrounded them , and here and there in the meadows rose bunches of dark spruces , so that they made them still lighter and sunnier . The woods rose up to the summits , and wrapped them as if in shaggy sheepskin ...
Page 193
... dark under the plane tree . The fires dying out , the embers glowed raspberry red . I did not grope about on entering the Konak as I had thought I would a minute before . I was looking for someone . There was someone to look for . I ...
... dark under the plane tree . The fires dying out , the embers glowed raspberry red . I did not grope about on entering the Konak as I had thought I would a minute before . I was looking for someone . There was someone to look for . I ...
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... darkness , thorns scratched his out- stretched hands , for blackberries , hips and haws have thorns . In the dark the children found mushrooms . Two or three times we found squirrels ' nests , full of hazel nuts , and the hazel bushes ...
... darkness , thorns scratched his out- stretched hands , for blackberries , hips and haws have thorns . In the dark the children found mushrooms . Two or three times we found squirrels ' nests , full of hazel nuts , and the hazel bushes ...
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