Part Two, Chapter 5

«Martin Decoud, the dilettante in life, imagined himself to derive an artistic pleasure from watching the picturesque extreme of wrong-headedness

«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

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