Page 1029

'She looked at the faces in the ballroom. They were nervously blank; they showed nothing but the sagging weight of lethargy and the staleness of a chronic fear. They were looking at Galt and at Mouch, as if unable to perceive any difference between them or to feel concern if a difference existed, their empty, uncritical, unvaluing stare declaring: "Who am I to know?"'

Page 1028

'He looked as if his perceptive eyes were studying the men outside this room, the men who were seeing him across the country; one could not tell whether he was listening: no reaction altered the composure of his face.'

Page 1015

'She had seen an instant's pause in Mr. Thompson's facial muscles, then a brighter broader smile - like a silent speech declaring that he had not expected it, but was delighted to know what made her tick and that it was the kind of ticking he understood.'

Page 1010

'Mr. Thompson looked at him silently - and Galt saw, in the tightened lips, in the jutting chin, in the narrowed eyes, the look of an adolescent bully about to utter that philosophical argument which is expressed by the sentence: I'll bash your teeth in.'

Page 921

'Eddie Willers glanced at her with a look of bitterly patient astonishment, and stepped close to her side.'

Page 897

'He knew that they understood. He saw, on their faces, that stubbornly evasive look which he had once thought to be the look of a liar cheating a victim, but which he now knew to be worse: the look of a man cheating himself of his own consciousness.'

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.'