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

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

«(…) 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

«The flame showed a bronze, black whiskered face, a pair of eyes gazing straight (…)»

Part One, Chapter 4