“I say "her," but the pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented; what came to Charles was not a pronoun, but eyes, looks, the line of the hair over a temple, a nimble step, a sleeping face.”
John Fowles, The French Lieutenant's Woman
The French Lieutenant's Woman
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