The Greeks were nice chaps too. When they evacuated they had all their baggage animals they couldn't take off with them so they just broke their forelegs and dumped them into the shallow water. All those mules with their forelegs broken pushed over into the shallow water. It was all a pleasant business. My word yes a most pleasant business. "On the Quai at Smyrna." P. 12

"No. I haven't any anaesthetic," his father said. "But her screams are not important. I don't hear them because they are not important." Chapter I, p.16

In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he would never die. Chapter I, p.18

"Remember, that he who ruleth his spirit is greater than he that taketh a city," said his wife. She was a Christian Scientist. Her Bible, her...