Vladimir Nabokov. Las hermanas Vane
Vladimir Nabokov. THE VANE SISTERS
I lost no time in ringing up Cynthia, who told me it was all over— had been all over since eight in the morning—and asked me to bring her the note, and when I did, beamed through her tears with proud admiration for the whimsical use ("Just like her!") Sybil had made of an examination in French literature. In no time she "fixed" two highballs, while never parting with Sybil's notebook—by now splashed with soda water and tears—and went on studying the death message, whereupon I was impelled to point out to her the grammatical