NOTES FROM
The Luzhin Defense
Vladimir Nabokov
May 5, 2021
Chapter 3
Wearing a black, open-necked dress and a superb diamond dog collar, with a permanent expression of drowsy amiability on her puffy white face, she received the guests quietly, without exclaiming, whispering to each a few rapid, soft-sounding words; but inwardly she was beset by shyness and kept looking about for her husband, who was moving back and forth with mincing steps, his starched shirtfront swelling cuirasslike out of his waistcoat—a genial, discreet gentleman in the first timid throes of literary venerability
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Nabokov, Vladimir. “The Luzhin Defense.” Vintage Books, 2011-02-16. Apple Books.
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