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l air of dissipation which would have made his own person the fitting object of a Scotland Yard investigation. He was immensely tickled by his own adventures, and laughed heartily as he recounted them

marched as though they were six months gone with child

a lack of the niceties of classical education carried no shame, provided a man was smart in the things that mattered

“Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything

why was he so handsomely blond, so courteously aloof, so maddeningly boring with his talk about Europe and books and music and poetry and things that interested her not at all — and yet so desirable

Only when like marries like can there be any happiness.”

No wife has ever changed a husband one whit, and don’t you be forgetting that.

Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything

to survive a family must present an unbroken front to the world

Ellen’s life was not easy, nor was it happy, but she did not expect life to be easy, and, if it was not happy, that was woman’s lot. It was a man’s world, and she accepted it as such