Seguem abaixo trechos que fiquei na d\u00favida sobre o significado ou dificuldade de entender algumas palavras:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was as if all these people were the setting of the ring in which Savine was the jewel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She was there in a vast living room when he opened the door, arranged on a chaise in a great flood of cream skirts with the usual care, as if a sculptor had positioned her just so as his model.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He treated the world like an implausible storybook and, though it had thus far played along, she doubted it would do so for ever<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“How fucking stupid does she think we are?”
“From what I’ve seen she’s a pretty good judge,” said Broad. “Of that and most everything else.”
“And what does the likes o’ you do for the likes o’ her? Turn your hand to millinery, did you? Or have you gone from poacher to gamekeeper?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“All of them.” The greeter led them into a dark-panelled hall where games of skill, chance and ruination were being played. Groups of men sat talking, laughing, smoking, drinking. Girls cooed and crooned and fluttered fans between them. Coloured light gleamed on fine glassware and soft skin, filtered through amber drinks and curling smoke. Rarely if ever had such a tableau of high-class debauchery been assembled in one place, and Orso had arranged quite a few himself, in his misspent youth. And his misspent adulthood, for that matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rikke squatted in the wet woods, fretting at the old dowel around her neck, going over and over her own tooth marks with her thumbtip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rikke narrowed her eyes. Not that narrowing the right one made any difference. A misty night had become a misty day, which had been helpful far as not being seen went but was no help at all far as seeing where they were going now<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Trouble was like hunger to him. Stuffing your face till you’re sick one day doesn’t mean you won’t want lunch the next<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Seguem abaixo trechos que fiquei na d\u00favida sobre o significado ou dificuldade de entender algumas palavras: It was as if all these people were the setting of the ring in which Savine was the jewel. She was there in a vast living room when he opened the door, arranged on a chaise in a great…<\/p>\n