Clinton waits on the beach for the new arrivals, hoping that one of them will bring him good fortune. I look for the milk bottles, he says, explaining how ultra-white skin is a giveaway, the ones who've just arrived. Milk bottles that need filling ...

So, on I went. I think I never saw / Such starved ignoble nature; nothing throve: / For flowers - as well expect a cedar grove!

Should you go out with a boy just in order to leave the house and be seen in other places? This seemed mean and low-minded.

What is more barbarous than to see a nation […] where justice is lawfully denied him, that hath not wherewithall to pay for it; and that this merchandize hath so great credit, that in a politicall government there should be set up a fourth estate [tr. quatriesme estat] of Lawyers, breathsellers and pettifoggers […]