„Their comparative isolation, the precious sense of intimacy, the slight contact of their arms, affected him softly (…)“

„As the great Liberator Bolivar had said in bitterness of his spirit, ‚America is ungovernable. Those who worked for her independence have ploughed the sea‘.“

Part Two, Chapter 1

Part One „The Silver of the Mine“

„The material apparatus of perfected civilisation which obliterates the individuality of old towns under the stereotyped conveniences of modern life had not intruded as yet...

Part One, Chapter 7

„A woman’s true tenderness, like the true virility of a man, is expressed in action of a conquering kind.“

„She had never before given him such a fascinating vision of herself. All the eagerness of youth for a strange life, for great distances, for...

„(…) and at once fell prey to distress, incertitude and fear.“

„By the time he was twenty Charles Gould had, in his own turn, fallen under the spell of the Sao Tomé mine.“