Vladimir Nabokov. Solus Rex
Vladimir Nabokov. SOLUS REX
"No, I'm afraid I—well—I have something to take care of— It so happens that tonight I—"
"Oh, well, I'm not forcing you," the prince said affably, and a little farther, by the mill, they said good-bye.
As many very shy people would have done in his place, K, when forcing himself to face that ride, foresaw an especially trying ordeal for the very reason of AdulPs passing for a jovial talker: with a mild, minor-mode person it would have bee