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The Boarding House

`As a young man he had sown his wild oats, of course; he had boasted of his freethinking and denied the existence of God to his companions in public-houses. But that was all passed and done with... nearly.`

`He remembered well her eyes, the touch of her hand and his delirium. ... But delirium passes.`

After The Race

`This was not altogether pleasant for him, as he had nearly always to make a deft guess at the meaning and shout back a suitable answer in the face of a high wind.`

Eveline

`Home! She looked round the room, reviewing all its familiar objects which she had dusted once a week for so many years, wondering where on earth all the dust came from.`

`It was hard work - a hard life - but now that she was about to leave it she did not find it a wholly undesirable life.`

`School and home seemed to recede from us and their influence seemed to wane.`