31 da Armada

«"I can't bear the smell of cigars, can you?" said Lady Partridge.

"Lionel hates it too", murmured Rachel. As did Nick, to whom the dry lavatorial stench of cigars signified the inexplicable confidence of other men's tastes and habits and their readiness to impose them on their fellows. But since Gerald himself was smoking one, frowning and screwing up his left eye, he said nothing.»

"The Line of Beauty", de Alan Hollinghurst, em defesa de Fernanda Câncio.