"They were to have met in the garden of the Chapelle Expiatoire a five o'clock in the afternoon, but Julio Desnoyers with the impatience of a lover who hopes to advance the moment of meeting by presenting himself before the appointed time, arrived an half hour earlier."

Part 1, Chapter 1, The Tryst (In the Garden of Chapelle Expiatoire), pg. 3

"'If its mine, put it with the others.'" Part 1, Chapter 2, Madariaga, the Centaur, pg. 47

"He was used to thinking in Spanish, and translating his ideas into the speech of his ancestors, spattered his French will all kinds of Creole dialect."

Part 1, Chapter 3, The Desnoyers Family, pg. 86

"'God is asleep, forgetting the world,' continued the Russian. 'It will be a long time before he awakes, and while he sleeps the four feudal horsemen of the Beast will course through the land as its only lords.'" Part 1, Chapter 5, In...