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Vladimir Nabokov. FIRST LOVE
rail neck, but I could, and did, have a successful fistfight with a red-haired boy who had been rude to her. She used to give me warm handruls of hard candy. One day, as we were bending together over a starfish, and Colette's ringlets were tickling my ear, she suddenly turned toward me and kissed me on the cheek. So great was my emotion that all I could think of saying was, "You little monkey."
I had a gold coin that I assumed would pay for our elopement. Where did I want to take her? Spain? America? The mountains above Pau?" "La-bas, la-bas, dans la montagne," as I had heard Carmen sing at the opera. One strange night, I lay awake, listening to the recurrent thu