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Vladimir Nabokov. THE CIRCLE
ly rehearsed on the eve an attitude of democratic scorn, was over come by the greatest embarrassment) there flickered young people, running children, somebody's black shawl embroidered with gaudy puppies, a second fox terrier, and above all, above all, those eyes gliding through shine and shade, those features still indistinct but already threatening him with fatal fascination, the face of Tanya whose birth -day was being feted.
Everybody was now seated. He found himself at the shade end of the long table, at which end convives did not indulge so much in mu-tual conversation as keep looking, all their heads turned in the same di-rection, at the brighter end where there was loud talk, and