This mannerism of what he'd seen of society struck Homer Wells quite forcefully; people, even nice people–because, surely, Wally was nice–would say a host of critical things about someone to whom they would then be perfectly pleasant. At. St. Cloud's, criticism was plainer–and harder, if not impossible, to conceal. John Irving
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