Sunday 5 August 2012

Page 891

'He did not finish; he looked at the three faces before him, and a sudden smile ended his sentence, a smile of weariness, of pity, of incredulous revulsion.'

Page 886 (2)

'The look in his mother's eyes was half-plea, as if she were begging him not to slap her in the face, half-triumph, as if she had slapped his.'

The only way I seemed to be able to make this work was literally to have one expression on each side of my face. Maybe Hank's mother was actually having a stroke? Not that he would have had any sympathy for her.

Page 886

'He stopped on the threshold. They stood looking at his face and at the open door behind him. Their faces had a look of fear and cunning, the look of that blackmail-through-virtue which he had learned to understand, as if they hoped to get away with it by means of nothing but his pity, to hold him trapped, when a single step back could take him out of their reach.'

Page 854 (2)

'The face of his attorney, an elderly man of the old-fashioned school, wore an expression that made it look as if he longed to take a bath'.

Page 854


'He noticed that the puppets of the courtroom had started by glancing at him in the sly, wise manner of fellow conspirators sharing a common guilt, mutually safe from moral condemnation. Then, when they observed that he was the only man in the room who looked steadily straight at anyone's face, he saw resentment growing in their eyes.'

Picture one is pre-resentment in the eyes, picture two obviously with some level of resentment now in the eyes.