"Neither rain—nor snow—nor heat—nor gloom of night—will stay these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds." Chap. 4, p. 39

"Certainly there had never been such a setting for a major operation: the wind whistling around a mountain cabin; dirty pots and pans by the hearth; a baby crying in its mother's arms; the smell of chewing tobacco; all these people crowded into one room with the air getting fouler by the minute. It would be germ-laden. Surely the Doctor was going to ask these staring people to leave." Chap. 5, p. 56

"Then something else they inherited from those ancestors of theirs—those people with their proud self-reliance and intense love of liberty—and that's an iron will. But this will that could result in major achievements Is now used mainly to keep feuds alive." Chap. 5, p. 72

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