“Beaming and melting in smiles of benevolence and self-effacement, they sidled up and plumped down next to Lucette, who turned to them with her last, last, last free gift of staunch courtesy that was stronger than failure and death.”
Vladimir Nabokov
Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
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