Frequently I had feigned sleep, preoccupation, or a hostile levity when I realized by some unmistakable sign that an intimate revelation was quivering in the horizon.

“When the lightning strikes one of us, it strikes both”

“A returned battalion of the National Guard paraded through the streets with ope…”

“all the city was playing with this sound out there in the blue summer dark, thr…”

“From the night into his high-walled room there came, persistently, that evanesc…”