"'Do you know where the extra money came from?' 'No, but that's not the most important thing I don't know. I simply don't know who he was."' (Part 1, pg. 6)
"Of course everybody is dealt a hand, but now and then he has a chance to draw another card, and it's the card he draws when the chance comes that can make all the difference. And what decides the card he draws? Francis was given a good hand at birth, but two or three times he had a chance to draw, and every time he seems to have drawn the joker." (Part 1, pg. 15)
"Maria, you astonish me! Weren't your childhood years important? They are the matrix from which a life grows." (Part 1, pg. 17)
"I'd know what was bred in the bone of old Francis......
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