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dreams are fluttering around Dusya. How she’s going to go
to the kolkhoz’s granary. How she’ll show her tits to the
White Negro. How she’ll again manage to get some
semushkas
.
“Well,
davai –
go on then!
“Do you want the short or the long Solitaire? The Chinese
Plait or Napoleon’s Grave?”
“What kind of a grave?” Manya’s never heard of Solitaire,
but she’s suddenly afraid.
“I can lay out Klondike or the common Solitaire. The
common one is the best.”
Laura stresses this, because she’s afraid that Manya may
choose the Chinese Plait, or worse still – Napoleon’s Grave,
which is a hard Solitaire and which Laura hasn’t managed
to learn. Ciganka Maldovanka was teaching her, but didn’t
manage to get as far as Napoleon’s Grave. Madalina went
back to her country, and Laura – to hers.
“Laura isn’t going to lay out Solitaire for you. The cards are
angry with you and I don’t have the time now.”
Laura throws the cards on the table! After all Laura is a
busy person.