Silence sat in the taxi, as though a stranger had got in.
Sport and death are the two great socializing factors in Ireland.
It is in this unearthly first hour of spring twilight that earth's almost agonized livingness is most felt. This hour is so dreadful to some people that they hurry indoors and turn on the lights.
We have really no absent friends.
Ireland is a great country to die or be married in.
...there must be something she wanted; and that therefore she was no lady.