Tuesday, 23 June 2015

Signs of Wear


           Her face was the face of a girl of twenty-five already showing signs of wear. Little lines crossed the corners of her big ripe mouth. Fainter lines were beginning to make nets around her thick-lashed eyes. They were large eyes, blue and a bit blood-shot.

Dashiell Hammett
Red Harvest
1929

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