“That cold white candent voice which was more caustic than silver nitrate and more thrilling than a scream.”

—  Frederick Rolfe, book Hadrian the Seventh

Source: Hadrian the Seventh (1904), Ch. 22, p. 335

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British writer, photographer and historian 1860–1913

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