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Vladimir Nabokov. A RUSSIAN BEAUTY
ed Forstmann, a well-off athletic widower, author of books on hunting, came to spend a week. He had long been asking Vera to find him a bride, "a real Russian beauty." He had a mas sive, strong nose with a fine pink vein on its high bridge. He was po lite, silent, at times even morose, but knew how to form, instantly and while no one noticed, an eternal friendship with a dog or with a child With his arrival Olga became difficult. Listless and irritable, she did all the wrong things and she knew that they were wrong. When the con versation turned to old Russia (Vera tried to make her show off her past), it seemed to her that everything she said was a lie and that ev eryone understoo