one true sentence
Posted: February 7th, 2005, 4:17 am
"The threat, they knew was prepsterous, but the white judical face, the thoughtful pursing of the lips, and the right hand, which she held loosely clenched, like a man's, with the fore-finger extended, emphasizing her proclamation with a calm, but somehow powerful gesture, froze them with a terror no amount of fierce excoriation could have produced"