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Page 176
... took a cigarette out of his case and flung it to him . Savinkov lost his temper . He took the cigarette and threw it in the officer's face . He laughed a little as he told me his words : " You forget , sir , that I am no less a ...
... took a cigarette out of his case and flung it to him . Savinkov lost his temper . He took the cigarette and threw it in the officer's face . He laughed a little as he told me his words : " You forget , sir , that I am no less a ...
Page 283
... took it out . He lightly rubbed the places where the skewer had gone in and come out and not only was there no blood , but there was no wound . Another came for- ward , took another skewer , passed it through his neck , behind the ...
... took it out . He lightly rubbed the places where the skewer had gone in and come out and not only was there no blood , but there was no wound . Another came for- ward , took another skewer , passed it through his neck , behind the ...
Page 294
... took his im- prisonment very hard . He told me that he used to cry for hours at a time and sometimes would be seized with an ir- resistible desire to get out , and would beat at the iron bars of his cell door and try to break it open ...
... took his im- prisonment very hard . He told me that he used to cry for hours at a time and sometimes would be seized with an ir- resistible desire to get out , and would beat at the iron bars of his cell door and try to break it open ...
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