‘The lies they tell about me break my heart,’ he said. And then I heard a strange noise coming from Constant. His body was shaking. The noise I could hear was something like sobbing. But it wasn’t quite sobbing. It was an approximation of sobbing. His face was screwed up like a face would be if it were crying, but it was weird, like bad acting. A grown man in a dapper suit was pretending to cry in front of me. This would have been awkward enough if he was actually crying – I find displays of overt emotion not at all pleasant – but this was a man palpably simulating crying, which made the
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