Vladimir Nabokov. Solus Rex : Клуб изучающих испанский языкVladimir Nabokov. Solus Rex
Vladimir Nabokov. SOLUS REX
. This unforeseen avowal convulsed the public with long laughter, while the prosecutor, losing his head, attempted to stop the defendant's mouth by physical means. Then the jury retired for a silent smoke to the room allotted to them, and presently came back to announce the verdict. It was suggested that Dr. Onze be sentenced to eleven years' hard labor.
The sentence was wordily approved by the press. At secret visits his friends shook hands with the martyr, as they took farewell of him.... But here, good old Gafon, for the first time in his life, unexpectedly for everybody including, maybe, his own self, acted rather wittily: he took advantage of an incontestable prerogative and gra