Vladimir Nabokov. El círculo : Клуб изучающих испанский языкVladimir Nabokov. El círculo
Vladimir Nabokov. THE CIRCLE
n Ivanovich Kutaysov, came home, and the Countess, meeting him in the next room, was heard to identify their visitor, in her domestic French brought over from Russia, as He fits du maitre d'ecole chez nous au village," which reminded Innokentiy of Tanya saying once in his presence to a girlfriend of hers whom she-wanted to notice his very shapely hands: "Regarde ses mains"; and now, listening to the melodious, beautifully idiomatic Russian in which the child replied to Tanya's questions, he caught himself thinking, malevolently and quite absurdly, Aha, there is no longer the money to teach the kids foreign languages!—for it did not occur to him at that moment that in t