“what will the South be like without all our fine boys? What would the South have been if they had lived?”
“Tell about the South. What's it like there. What do they do there. Why do they live there. Why do they live at all.”
“He was like a man who had served a term in prison or had been to Harvard College or had lived for a long time with foreigners in South America.”
“Slowly, very slowly, like two unhurried compass needles, the feet turned towards the right; north, north-east, east, south-east, south, south-south-west; then paused, and after a few seconds, turned as unhurriedly back towards the left. South-south-west, south, south-east, east...”
“What an absurdity to go and bury oneself in South America, where they are always having revolutions.”
“It had been no struggle to turn his face to the south and leave it behind — but it had hurt his heart.”