Page 644

'He smiled, as if grasping a full confession of the meaning she attached to his name; the smile held an adversary's acceptance of a challenge - and an adult's amusement at the self-deception of a child.'

Page 643

'He was looking down at her with the faint trace of a smile, it was not a look of discovery but of familiar contemplation - as if he, too, were seeing the long-expected and never-doubted.'

Before this line there's actually a very detailed description of his face which I considered doing, but decided it was describing more permanent facial qualities, rather than an expression, and therefore not really possible. I do apologise that my face doesn't convey this character's 'look of a ruthless innocence which would not seek forgiveness or grant it', and that my eyes don't impart a 'superlative value to myself and to the world'.

Page 621

'They all looked at her with an air of inquiring expectation, as she approached. The unnatural pallor of the moonlight seemed to dissolve the differences of their faces and to stress the quality they all had in common: a look of cautious appraisal, part fear, part plea, part impertinence held in abeyance.'

Obviously I'll never quite capture this without getting out into the moonlight, but I've always felt that the unnatural pallor of my room brings out my impertinence when it's held in abeyance, at least at this time of evening.

Page 616

'"Yes..." He was looking off, as if at some sight which he had studied for years, but which remained unchanged and unsolved; his face had an odd, questioning look of terror.'

Page 603

'She glanced at the conductor. She saw nothing in his face except the blind malevolence of pain, of some long-repressed anger that broke out upon the first object available, almost without consciousness of the object's identity.'

Page 576

'The "feudal serf" of Taggart Transcontinental was the only one who seemed untouched by the disaster. He looked at Taggart with the lifelessly conscientious glance of a scholar confronted by a field of knowledge he had never wanted to study.'