'The look on her face astonished him more than all the rest: it was a look of defeat and yet of an odd, sly, cynical cunning, as if, for a moment, she held some worldly wisdom that mocked his innocence.'
There may have been some of these earlier in the book. I think I'd already half noticed them, but this one was very memorable, and drove me to actually folding the corner down on every page where I find one.
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