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'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.