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d of palms and national flags, and moisten her rich painted lips with her pale tongue, and leisurely clasp her kid-gloved hands on her corseted stomach, while her constant accompanist, marble-faced Joseph Levin sky, who had followed her, in the shadow of her song, to the Tsar private concert hall and to Comrade Lunacharsky's salon, and to non descript places in Constantinople, produced his brief introductory se ries of stepping-stone notes.
Sometimes, if the house was of the right sort, she would sing tin-national anthem before launching upon her limited but ever welcome repertoire. Inevitably there would be that lugubrious "Old Road to Kaluga" (with a thunderstruck pine tree a