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Cлово "RECEIPT"
Входимость: 2. Размер: 57кб.
Входимость: 1. Размер: 59кб.
Входимость: 1. Размер: 40кб.
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Входимость: 2. Размер: 57кб.
Часть текста: a Lolita-maddened salesman or comedy gangster, with stooges, persecuting me, and hoaxing me, and otherwise taking riotous advantage of my strange relations with the law. I remember humming my panic away. I remember evolving even an explanation of the “Birdsley” telephone call… But if I could dismiss Trapp, as I had dismissed my convulsions on the lawn at Champion, I could do nothing with the anguish of knowing Lolita to be so tantalizingly, so miserably unattainable and beloved on the very even of a new era, when my alembics told me she should stop being a nymphet, stop torturing me. An additional, abominable, and perfectly gratuitous worry was lovingly prepared for me in Elphinstone. Lo had been dull and silent during the last laptwo hundred mountainous miles uncontaminated by smoke-gray sleuths or zigzagging zanies. She hardly glanced at the famous, oddly shaped, splendidly flushed rock which jutted above the mountains and had been the take-off for nirvana on the part of a temperamental show girl. The town was newly built, or rebuilt, on the flat floor of a seven-thousand-foot-high valley; it would soon bore Lo, I hoped, and we would spin on to California, to the Mexican border, to mythical bays, saguaro desserts, fatamorganas. Jos Lizzarrabengoa, as you remember, planned to take his Carmen to the Etats Unis. I conjured up a Central American tennis competition in which Dolores Haze and various Californian schoolgirl champions would...
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Часть текста: car, old man-doll, Miss O.’s nurse running with a rustle, a half-empty tumbler in her hand, back to the screened porchwhere the propped-up, imprisoned, decrepit lady herself may be imagined screeching, but not loud enough to drown the rhythmical yaps of the Junk setter walking from group to groupfrom a bunch of neighbors already collected on the sidewalk, near the bit of checked stuff, and back to the car which he had finally run to earth, and then to another group on the lawn, consisting of Leslie, two policemen and a sturdy man with tortoise shell glasses. At this point, I should explain that the prompt appearance of the patrolmen, hardly more than a minute after the accident, was due to their having been ticketing the illegally parked cars in a cross lane two blocks down the grade; that the fellow with the glasses was Frederick Beale, Jr., driver of the Packard; that his 79-year-old father, whom the nurse had just watered on the green bank where he laya banked banker so to speakwas not in a dead faint, but was comfortably and methodically recovering from a mild heart attack or its possibility; and, finally, that the laprobe on the sidewalk (where she had so often pointed out to me with disapproval the crooked green cracks) concealed the mangled remains of Charlotte Humbert who had been knocked down and dragged several feet by the Beale car as she was hurrying across the street to drop three letters in the mailbox, at the corner of Miss Opposite’s lawn. These were picked up and handed to me by a pretty child in a dirty pink frock, and I got rid of them by clawing them to fragments in my trouser pocket. Three doctors and the Farlows presently arrived on the...
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Часть текста: обошлись ему почти во столько же, во сколько вся остальная его одежда (включая и бандитский огненный галстук). До начала 40-х годов, в степенную европейскую пору его жизни, он всегда носил длинные кальсоны, окончанья которых заправлялись в опрятные шелковые носки умеренной расцветки и со стрелкой, державшихся на обтянутых бумазеей икрах при помощи подвязок. В те дни обнаружить хотя бы на миг белизну этих исподних, слишком высоко поддернув штанины, представлялось Пнину столь же постыдным, сколь появление перед дамами без воротничка и галстука; ибо даже когда увядшая мадам Ру - консьержка убогого доходного дома в шестнадцатом округе Парижа, где Пнин скоротал пятнадцать лет после бегства из ленинизированной России и завершения университетского образования в Праге, - поднималась к нему за платой, чопорный Пнин, если он еще был без faux col[1], прикрывал горловую запонку целомудренной дланью. Все изменилось в пьянительной атмосфере Нового Света. Ныне, в пятьдесят два года, он был помешан на солнечных ваннах, носил спортивные рубашки и просторные брюки, укладывая же ногу на ногу, прилежно, намеренно и бесстыдно обнаруживал огромный кусок оголенной голени. Таким мог увидеть его попутчик; впрочем, исключая солдата, спавшего в одном конце вагона, и двух женщин, поглощенных дитятей в другом, весь вагон принадлежал Пнину. Пора поделиться секретом. Профессор Пнин ошибся поездом. Он об этом не знал, как ...