“It was just noon that Saturday morning when the sheriff reached the jail with Lucas Beauchamp though the whole town (the whole county for that matter) had known since the night before that Lucas had killed a white man.”

— William Faulkner , book Intruder in the Dust

The opening sentence of the novel, Ch. 1
Intruder in the Dust (1948)

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