Please read Alexey Sklyarenko's annotations on Pale Fire, Ada and other Nabokov works here.
According to Ada (the title character in a novel, 1969, by VN), at Marina's funeral Demon and d'Onsky's son, a person with only one arm, wept comme des fontaines:
‘My upper-lip space feels indecently naked.’ (He had shaved his mustache off with howls of pain in her presence). ‘And I cannot keep sucking in my belly all the time.’