Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family — but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything. Shadows on the Rock (1931)
Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves. Shadows on the Rock (1931)
Directly under his feet was the French stronghold, — scattered spires and slated roofs flashing in the rich, autumnal sunlight; the little capital which was just then the subject of so much discussion in Europe, and the goal of so many fantastic dreams. Shadows on the Rock (1931)