His face had become very red and his mouth and fingers were sticky. He…

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His face had become very red and his mouth and fingers were sticky. He did not look either clever or handsome, whatever the Queen might say. ✨ C. S. LEWIS (1950). THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE
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