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Excerpt from Time and Eternity: A Tale of Three Exiles
Mr. Perekatov struck a match, burned his fingers, growled, lit another. As he held it in the cup of his huge hairy hands its light revealed a massive Jewish face, a long delicate nose, thick, sensitive lips, a heavy blue chin and tragic, short-sighted eyes. Opening his hands he held the light up to the door and found the number he was seeking - 33. "That's good!" he said, looking up the dark street, and he knocked on the door. He heard light footsteps on the stairs, the door was opened and a woman stood in the light of a guttering candle. The hall and stairs were dirty, but the woman was neat in her petticoat and bed-jacket, and Mr. Perekatov guessed at once that she was French. He removed his hat and asked: "Mr. Stephen Lawrie?" "I think he is in," said the woman, and she reached out and knocked on an inner door. Mr. Perekatov noticed with relief that she was middle-aged, sober and self-possessed. 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.
