Vladimir Nabokov. Una mala noticia
Vladimir Nabokov. BREAKING THE NEWS
The doorbell rang, and the solemn landlady, in her best dress, let in Ida and Ida's sister: their awful white faces expressed a kind of concentrated avidity.
"She doesn't know yet," Chernobylski told them; he undid all three buttons of his jacket and immediately buttoned it up again.
Eugenia Isakovna, her eyebrows twitching but her lips still retaining their smile, stroked the hands of her new visitors and reseated herself, invitingly turning her little