Daughters of Shem
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| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Daughters of Shem: And Other Stories The shop stood in the very centre of the town. One could determine this with almost mathematical precision, for the place was styled a town less on its merits than by geographical courtesy; as a matter of fact it consisted of a single street, all frontage, which, starting from the shop, took a few strides to the right, as many, or as few, to the left, and then broke off abruptly. It enjoyed, however, the distinction of being one of the half dozen frontier stations within the railway radius, the main object of which is to render the lives of travellers passing in and out of the land of the shadow of the Czar as much a burden to themselves as possible. Woe to the improvident passenger whose passport shows the slightest flaw or discrepancy. The double-headed eagle of Russia has sharp eyes and sharper claws, and he can strike hard, unless one has the means and the presence of mind to soothe the ruffled feelings of his myrmidons. As a rule, palm oil will be found very effective. If you succeed in running the bureaucratic gauntlet, you are allowed to get off with the fright, and the conviction that the Russian frontier is a beautiful thing in the retrospect. If you do not, you become an object of tender solicitude to sundry gendarmes, till advices arrive whether and whither you are to he expedited by special escort. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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