She finished sixty-fourth in the race.

It is the way of the world. It is just as well Polly is faithless. If it were otherwise, she would very likely break her heart for him.¶ And deep down in his muddled mind he knows that stately ship as the symbol of his first love, a love more cruel in her way than this poor Blowsabella of Paradise Street, a love whose gifts are hardship, and cold, and peril in great waters—yet to whom, while breath is in his body, he will continually return.

[…] the mountain folk, as a group, much more frequently opposed the flatlanders.

At the convict hour between four and five when even those with the least to fear are darkened and sober, and back away from waking. Note: The Coblins was chapter 2 of The Adventures of Augie March, (Viking Press, 1953).