valiant efforts to make conversation all stumbled and sank into quicksand. The main thing I remembered were the forced smiles, the heavy smell of cherry pipe tobacco and Grandpa Decker's not-very-friendly warning to keep my sticky little mitts off his model train set {an Alpine village which took up an entire room of their house and according to him was worth tens of thousands of dollars}.
( Donna Tartt )
[ The Goldfinch ]
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