Quotes

But at home he felt a curious loneliness as his butler made him tea in the samovar. It was the hold hurt come back, heavy and delightful.
There was lassitude inplenty - California was filling up with weary desperados. And there were tense young mean and women who lived back East in spirit while was everyone's secret that sustained effort was difficult here - a secret that Stahr scarcely admitted to himself. But he knew that people from other places spurted a pure rill of new energy for a while
They sat on high stools and had tomato broth and hot sandwiches. It was more intimate than anything they had done, and they both felt a dangerous sort of loneliness, and felt it in each other.