Sublime

vicissitude

undaunted. But at his layover in Paris he meets his match: a surprise

best,” the chief says, as the other

foisted

rivulet

dappled

He stood, bound by something he could not name, something he would not have thought to identify until that moment because it seemed to him a given, like being born with bones and flesh, a set of relations deeper than any order, a law that was subject to no conversion or alteration because it was lodged in the veins, in the blood, in the very fact o

the man was too firm in his nonbeliefs for any last-minute cowardice.

largesse