Joan Wolf
“Then Linton said, “Your Macbeth will be a sensation if that was a sample.”
“Would you care to explain what you mean by that remark, my lord?” she asked in a brittle voice.
“I mean that you and that actor looked very cozy,” he said, a grim look about his mouth.
A deep, familiar coldness came over Jessica as she looked bleakly back at him. Just so had she stood many times before, alone and in bitter opposition to her stepfather. As she stiffened her back against Linton he took two steps closer to... her and halted. A shaft of pale sunlight from the window fell on his thick blond hair and illuminated his grim, white face.
Her eyes widened for a moment, arrested, and it suddenly was as though the veil that had blurred her vision for so long had ripped away and she was standing, naked and defenseless, before the frightening truth. She took a deep, shuddering breath. Her throat ached. All her anger died away, to be replaced by a despair so absolute that it withered her soul. It was pain to look at him.MoreLess
“Would you care to explain what you mean by that remark, my lord?” she asked in a brittle voice.
“I mean that you and that actor looked very cozy,” he said, a grim look about his mouth.
A deep, familiar coldness came over Jessica as she looked bleakly back at him. Just so had she stood many times before, alone and in bitter opposition to her stepfather. As she stiffened her back against Linton he took two steps closer to... her and halted. A shaft of pale sunlight from the window fell on his thick blond hair and illuminated his grim, white face.
Her eyes widened for a moment, arrested, and it suddenly was as though the veil that had blurred her vision for so long had ripped away and she was standing, naked and defenseless, before the frightening truth. She took a deep, shuddering breath. Her throat ached. All her anger died away, to be replaced by a despair so absolute that it withered her soul. It was pain to look at him.MoreLess
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