It began with the twitch of her lower lip as it took on a life of its own, rippling outward to the corners of her mouth and forcing them upward into a helpless smile. She instantly clasped one hand over her mouth in a frantic attempt to silence the sound that was coming from her throat. The result was that she half-spluttered, half-coughed, her eyes painfully wide as she desperately wished a hole would emerge in the oriental carpet and mercifully swallow her up.Sophie Barnes
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"The twitch of her lower lip as it took on a life of its own, rippling outward to the corners of her mouth and forcing them upward into a helpless smile." The quote was written by the famous English author, Charles Dickens. In this quote, he uses facial expression to describe his thoughts about a woman's shyness. In this case, he is talking about a woman who smiles while facing a blank canvas. He believes that her lips may be smiling but her heart might be blank.
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