Chapter 17 in Ada I, Penguin page 86, describes
Adaīs hands:
"Ada explained to her passionate fortunetellere
that the circular marblings she shared with Turgenevīs Katya, another innocent
girl, were called 'waltzes' in California ( 'because the seņorita will dance all
night')" .
I was wondering about the word "marblings". Would
they be something like the concentric markings VN makes become similar
to marble veins in a stone, or would they rather be like caluses
( from too much waltzing), i.e, marbles as those glass-spheres played with
in childhood?