"'I am only nineteen, but I have already observed that, whereas there still lingers some absurd prejudice against living on one's friends, no limits are set, either by society or by one's own conscience, to the amount one may impose upon one's relatives.'" Chap. 1, p. 13

"'On the whole, I dislike my fellow-beings; I find them so difficult to understand. But I have a tidy mind, and untidy lives irritate me. Also, they are uncivilized.'"Chap. 2, p. 20

"She was feeling downright morbid, and her sensations were unpleasingly complicated by the knowledge that it was entirely due to her own obstinacy that she was setting out at all upon this absurd and disagreeable pilgrimage." Chap. 2, p. 29

"A strong family likeness wavered in and out of the fierce, earth-reddened faces of the seven, like a capricious light." Chap. 3, p. 39

"It then occurred to her that there was a less...