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| | "Tale of the Military Secret" by Arkady Gaidar - from SovLit.com - Page 10 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) |
 | | And when we left, he lay down on the floor and pressed his ear to the hard, cold, stone floor and--whether you believe it or not, O, Chief Bourgeois--he smiled in such a way that we, the bourgeois, shivered and became frightened that perhaps he hears our inescapable destruction moving along the secret pathways." |
 | | It's the Red Army galloping!" excitedly shouted out the Octobrist Karasikov, unable to restrain himself. |
 | | And he waved his hand with an imaginary sabre so fiercely that even the girl who just recently--hopping on one leg--had fearlessly teased him as "Krasik-rugasik", looked at him warily and, just to be safe, moved away a little further. |
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