If he had been a woman he must have screamed under the nervous tension which he was now undergoing. But that relief being denied to his virility, he … - Thomas Hardy

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If he had been a woman he must have screamed under the nervous tension which he was now undergoing. But that relief being denied to his virility, he clenched his teeth in misery, bringing lines about his mouth like those in the Laocoön, and corrugations between his brows.