statuesque, her glittering eyes black with makeup, and diamonds glinting in the piled-up mass of her dark hair, in the middle of the afternoon. Though, of course, the diamonds were paste—it was all a joke, a pantomime sendup. Valerie wasn’t such a fool, she ...
his eyes glistened, but he held back the tears. “they said to do what you told me.”“i would have you cry, if you are able,” snake said. “it isn’t such a terrible thing.” but stavin seemed not to understand, and snake did not press him; she thought his people must teach...