Vladimir Nabokov. Una mala noticia
Vladimir Nabokov. BREAKING THE NEWS
They entered. Madame Chernobylski and the warmhearted pianist had been waiting there for quite a long time. Now the execution would start.
Eugenia Isakovna liked visitors and her friends often called on her, so that now she had no reason to be astonished; she was only pleased and without delay started fussing hospitably. They found it hard to ar rest her attention while she dashed this way and that, changing her course at an abrupt angle (the plan that spread its glow within her was to fix a real lunch). At last the musician caught her in the corridor by the end of he