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Saturday, 15 September 2018

There was Peace


         He sat relaxed. A short, pale, paunchy, middle-aged man with long delicate fingers clasped on the Elk's tooth on his watch chain ; the delicate fingers of a sleight-of-hand artist, fingers with shiny molded nails and tapering first joints, fingers a little spatulate at the ends. Handsome fingers. Tony Reseck rubbed them gently together and there was peace in his quiet sea-grey eyes.

Raymond Chandler
I'll Be Waiting
1939

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