“You talk so sweet I bet you have to suck on salt for half and hour to get the taste of sugar out of your mouth.”
In “Seventh Son,” there are several places where dialogue typical of the eighteenth/nineteenth century shows up to add lots of character to various passages. This is one that immediately caught my attention … too bad that as an attorney, I don’t know many people with this condition he is describing!
The image comes from Mandy’s Deviantart page.