It is difficult, when faced with a situation you cannot control, to admit you can do nothing.
HorseradishHe felt ready to face the devil, and strutted in the ballroom with the swagger of a cavalier.
The Suicide ClubA changeableness, too, as if beneath my visible face there was another, having second thoughts.
Middlesex...and my eyes no longer gaze the same on the face of the world.
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