“Elodie made a gesture that was pretty easy to interpret.”
“The viscountess had raised the forefinger of her right hand and made a pretty gesture toward a stool at her feet. There was such intense tyrannical passion in the gesture that the marquis relinquished the doorknob and came back.”
“He probably would've raised an eyebrow in that annoying/hot way he had, and made a dirty joke about Elodie possessing me.”
“Her smile was like a Samuel Beckett play - easy to read but difficult to interpret.”
“He found that it was easy to make a heroic gesture, but hard to abide by its results.”
“I had the feeling deep in my gut that there'd been lines I should have spoken, gestures I should have made, that would have made things better. But looking back, I didn't know what they were. As a friend, I was pretty much useless, apparently.”