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Vladimir Nabokov. MADEMOISELLE O
away and left me stumbling and howling in the depths of the forest!" (Exaggerated.) aAh, lafessee que je vous ai flanquee!" ("My, what a spanking I gave you!") (She did try to slap me once but the attempt was never repeated.) "Votre tante, la Princesse, whom you struck with your little fist because she had been rude to me!" (Do not remember.) "And the way you whispered to me your childish troubles!" (Never!) "And the cozy nook in my room where you loved to snuggle because you felt so warm and secure!" Mademoiselle's room, both in the country and in town, was a weird place to me—a kind of hothouse sheltering a thic