Vladimir Nabokov. Una mala noticia
Vladimir Nabokov. BREAKING THE NEWS
"Oh I do, even most regularly," answered Eugenia Isakovna softly, and added, "Why don't you come to see me, why do you never ring me up?"—and a gust of pain rippled her gaze because well-meaning Madame Shuf shrieked back too piercingly.
They parted. Madame Shuf, who did not know anything yet, went home, while her husband, in his office, was uttering akhs and tsksy and shaking his head with the receiver pressed to it, as he listened to what Chernobylski was telling him over the telephone.
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