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"For over a year he had been beating his way along the south shore of Lake Superior as a clam-digger and a salmon-fisher or in any other capacity that brought him food and bed." p.98
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"An instinct toward his future glory had led him, some months before, to the small Lutheran college of St. Olaf's in southern Minnesota." p.99
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"Then he drifted back to Lake Superior, and he was still searching for something to do on the day that Dan Cody's yacht dropped anchor in the shallows alongshore." p.99
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"It might have lasted indefinitely except for the fact that Ella Kaye came on board one night in Boston and a week later Dan Cody Inhospitably died." p.100
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"He didn't get it. He never understood the legal device that was used against him, but what remained of the millions went intact to Ella Kaye." p.100
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"The officer looked at Daisy while she was speaking, in a way that every young girl wants to be looked at some time, and because it seemed romantic to me I have remembered the incident ever since." p.75
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"Wild rumors were circulating about her-how her mother had found her packing her bag one winter night to go to New york and say good-by to a soldier who was going overseas." p.75
