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The fillip of collective opprobrium had summoned their lust like a knife chiming crystal

With a somnolent underwater motion, she hammered the nail until it perforated the soft wood and joined the two slats

The apartment was small, crowded, close. Femininity breathed from every surface down to the cheap wainscoting.

She followed the lieutenant down a hallway pocked with doors suggestively canted

She wore a wedding ring (as did he) and a small gold cross at her neck, but a current of wayward sensuality had been unmistakable in her, making these symbols seem apotropaic