Söndags-smakbit # 38

Bloggen Betraktelser ger oss på söndagar chansen att publicera ett litet smakprov ur en bok vi läser.
Jag läser The Vanishing av Sophia Tobin
Jag har länkat titeln till GoodReads där du kan läsa mer.Den verkar vara en vattendelare, vissa ger den högt betyg andra uselt. Själv har jag läst ungefär halva boken och har ännu inte bestämt mig för vilket betyg den får.
Smakbit sid. 38
“-Miss Twentyman, whose possessions are these? I asked.
She was standing at the window, staring out, and turned with a certain impatiene, as though I had interrupted some important activity.
-Oh, she said, and hesitated. -Those. They belonged to the last servant. She left here in a hurry and in quite a temper. You may have them, if you wish. She was a strange girl, although when she applied here several people testified as to her good character. But she fled the house, and took one of our best silver candlesticks with her. She is lucky we did not send for the magistrate.”

Smakbit sid.102
“- I watched him carefully, and he looked back without smiling. He was not afraid of leaving his face in repose. Puzzle-picker as I was, I could not help but try and unweave the emotions behind his veiled eyes, make him less of a mystery to me. I could not decide if his dominant force was rage, or sensitivity to life. He reacted to everything as though it was magnified to him.”