“His eyes, as she had noted before, betrayed a keen intelligence but no emotion whatsoever—they might have been the eyes of some ancient tortoise, one who had seen a thousand empires rise and fall and cared nothing for any of them.”
Source: Arabella and the Battle of Venus (2017), Chapter 17, “Conspiracy” (p. 276)
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