She said that she did not wish for any monuments to the Hurlbird family. At the time I thought that that was because of a New England dislike for necrological ostentation.

“His sister-in-law Sylvia represented for him unceasing, unsleeping activities o…”

“He was in a beastly hole. But decency demanded that he shouldn't act in panic. …”

“[W]e are almost always in one place with our minds somewhere quite other.”

“Higher than the beasts, lower than the angels, stuck in our idiot Eden.”