Vladimir Nabokov. Una cuestión de honor
"Sit down, sit down," he said, and himself sat down first. Gnushke sank back into an armchair, caught himself, and sat up on its edge.
"He's a highly insolent character," Mityushin said with feeling. "Imagine—he kept laughing all the while, so that I nearly punched him in the teeth."
Gnushke cleared his throat and said, "There is only one thing I can advise you to do: take careful aim, because he is also going to take careful aim."
Before Anton Petrovich's eyes flashed a notebook page covered with Xs: diagram of a cemetery.
"He is a dangerous fellow," said Gnushke, leanin