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Vladimir Nabokov. ORACHE
rs earlier the ceiling had collapsed). There was also something called the Kadet Party, which had nothing to do with parties or cadets. Very of ten Peter would have to dine separately upstairs, with Miss Sheldon— who had black hair and blue eyes and wore a knit tie with transverse-stripes over her voluminous blouse—while downstairs near the mon strously swollen hallstands fully fifty pairs of rubbers would accumu late; and if he passed from the vestibule to the side room with its silk-covered Turkish divan he could suddenly hear—when somewhere in the distance a footman opened a door—a cacophonic din, a zoolike hubbub, and the remote but clear voice of his father.
One gloomy November morn