Richard Flanagan. Desire (№ 289865)

- I will play as I see fit, no matter what. - She proudly raised her head, and her cheeks began to flush.
"Death is inevitable, may death, may benefit," he recited Dickens. He again could not refrain from hypocrisy. <...>
Ellen didn't care, she didn't even hear what said Dickens. She looked at his hands, when he was reciting. So raises his wings a wild bird trapped in a cage.