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"No doubt all she said was true. There were others who had more and would spend more. He was boasting and being ridiculous and she was laughing at him."

Theodore Dreiser. An American Tragedy . Jovian Press. Kindle Edition.

So that all the while, and not unlike her brother Clyde, her thoughts as well as her emotions were wandering here and there— to love, to comfort—to things which in the main had little, if anything, to do with any self-abnegating and self-immolating religious theory. Within her was a chemism of dreams which somehow counteracted all they had to say.

Theodore Dreiser. An American Tragedy . Jovian Press. Kindle Edition