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Vladimir Nabokov. SOLUS REX
empo. True, a few days before the verdict, members of the royalist party succeeded, by intricate or merely crooked means, in getting a law passed forbidding the newspa pers to report on "divorce cases or other hearings apt to contain scandalous items"; but as, constitutionally, no law could be enforced until forty days had elapsed since its acceptance (a period termed "par tun-ency of Themis"), the papers had ample time to cover the trial to the very end.
Prince Adulf himself regarded the business with complete indiffer ence, which, moreover, was so naturally expressed that one wondered if he understood about whom they really were talking. Since every scrap of the aff