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He took one catlike step toward and hit her. His fist didn't travel more than six inches, and it landed with a sharp smack on the hinge of her jaw just below her ear. [She] whirled around with a graceful rustle of silk, fell across the divan, and rolled off on the floor. She lay motionless, face down.


Hey! I've been slugged on the jaw below the ear once or twice in a bar fight in my younger days. No fun

[Latin] went out the side door and closed it behind him. The darkness was like a living thing, a heavy menacing weight that pressed coldly against his face. The mouth of the alley, half a block away, was a narrow high rectangle with the streetlights feeble and yellow beyond it.