"It was a lonely household, of which he was an only child, and it was bound together by the necessity of its toil." (4)

"'But don't you know, Mr. Stoner?' Sloane asked. 'Don't you understand about yourself yet? You're going to be a teacher.'" (20)

"'The scholar should not be asked to destroy what he has aimed his life to build.'" (36)

"She continued to talk, and after a while he began to hear what she was saying. Years later it was to occur to him that in that hour and a half on that December evening of their first extended time together, she told him more about herself than she ever told him again. And when it was over, he felt that they were strangers in a way that he had not thought they would be, and he knew that he was in love." (53)

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