I covered up my blue eyes, as always, with black glasses, lest their radiance mesmerize and entrance at random-a real nuisance-and over my delicate white hands, with their telltale glassy fingernails, I drew the usual pair of soft gray leather gloves! He would come to our apartment from one,
volubly praising the beauty and speed of the beast he had
wagered on if he had won, or berating the animal as bait
for crows when he had lost.