lead and sugar
7 Jun 2019 02:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
The habitual truculence of his tone and manner had today altered to something mealy, to a conviviality weighted with lead and sugar, a ghastly intimacy more dreadful than his most dreaded rages.
—Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan