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Vladimir Nabokov. SOLUS REX
n in passing he put his hand on K's shoulder and nodded mysteriously—this, as well as the slow, guarded sound of voices, and the expression of those three officers' eyes, caused K to prick up his cars. Hardly two minutes passed before he knew that what they were coldly working out here, in this bogus room, was the already decided assassination of the crown prince.
He felt the breath of fate near his temples and the same, almost physical, nausea he had once experienced after that soiree at his cousin's. By the look which the silent pygmy in the embrasure gave him (a look of curiosity mixed with sarcasm), K realized that his confusion had not passed unnoticed. He got up, and then everyone