так, книжное

сегодня утром в метро читала Моэма ("Red"). Встретила вот это:
"For he seemed faintly to laugh at what he said. It was as though he spoke from emotion which his intellect found ridiculous. He had said himself that he was a sentimentalist, and when sentimentality is joined with scepticism there is often the devil to pay."

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