lead and sugar

7 Jun 2019 02:54 pm
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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
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