“And, to our bitter grief, with a smile and in silence, he died, a gallant gentleman.”

“A gal who is not gallant to gall a gentleman who is genteel and gentle should be champing at the bit to get hitched to a gentile gent who is not a gentility.”

“Did he touch you? Hurt you?" Jeb whispers in the silence."No. He was a gentleman."Jeb frowns. "You mean a gentleroach .”

“We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.”

“There are silences and silences. No one of them is like another. There is the silence of grief in velvet-draped rooms of a plushly carpeted funeral parlor which is far different from the bleak and terrible silence of grief in a widower's lonely bedroom.”

“He smiled despite the grief he felt at the deaths of his men; he smiled because that was what he did. That was how he proved to the Lord Ruler-and to himself-that he wasn't beaten.”