“What it had come to was that he wore a mask…” Henry James

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“What it had come to was that he wore a mask painted with the social simper, out of the eye-holes of which there looked eyes of an expression not in the least matching the other features”

Henry James (spoken by Narrator)

The Beast in the Jungle, Chapter II (1915 Martin Secker edition (Project Gutenberg #1093))

The narrator describes the gap between Marcher's courteous public life and his inner detachment, a gap only May has seen.

Citation: "What it had come to was that he wore a mask painted with the social simper, out of the eye-holes of which there looked eyes of an expression not in the least matching the other features" — Henry James, The Beast in the Jungle, Chapter II (1915 Martin Secker edition (Project Gutenberg #1093)). (id henry-james-the-beast-in-the-jungle-q4)

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Quotation from The Beast in the Jungle by Henry James