cannonproof

Updated: June 10, 2025

His steel-hard eyes gave no hint of the Arcadia they had inhabited so eagerly a short twenty-four hours before. The intoxicating madness he had known was chained deep within him. Once more he had a grip on himself; was sheathed in a cannonproof plate armor of selfishness.

William MacLeod Raine - Ridgway of Montana (Story of To-Day, in Which the Hero Is Also the Villain)