“Apparently, Mayella's recital had given her confidence, but it was not her father's brash kind: there was something stealthy about hers, like a steady-eyed cat with a twitchy tail.”

—  Harper Lee, book To Kill a Mockingbird

Pt. 2, ch. 18
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

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