“A generous donor (who had no doubt lived a life that imperiled his mortal soul) had granted [the Sisters] more than one hundred waterfront acres.”
“no one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any”
“I’m just a brother who loved his sister more than life itself.”
“The man had no more romance in his soul than a codfish”
“No mortal man could frighten him, no more than the darkness could, nor the bones of his soul, the grey and grisly bones of his soul.”
“At the time, I thought if Stan Davis wanted to live on Green Valley Road, or in the Hundred-Acre Wood, that was his right as an American”