#beatrice d'hirson

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"A hanging moved to one side and a splendid girl of some twenty years, dark, tall, her breast round and firm, her waist well marked, her legs long, came in unhurriedly.

There was a curious slowness; about her voice, as there was about her gestures, about her manner of moving and about her glance. She gave a peculiar impression of a sort of flowing indolence and of abnormal placidity; one would have said that even lightning entering the window would not have made her move more quickly or taken that calm half-smile from the corner of her lips. But there was irony shining in the eyes beneath the long black lashes.

Undoubtedly she rejoiced in the disasters, crises, and tragedies of others".

- Maurice Druon, "The Iron King''.