Arrowsmith Quotes

"Got any cash outside your school-money?""I have not!""Thought so! How juh expect to support a wife?" (9.3.36-38)

Martin's excitement cooled. It seemed to him that she clung too closely to her partners, that she followed their steps too eagerly. (7.3.15)

Certainly he did not think of proposing marriage. He wanted—like most poor and ardent young men in such a case, he wanted all he could get. (5.3.1)

[Madeline] was the person who understood him! Here, where every one snatched at her and Dr. Brumfit beamed on her with almost matrimonial fondness, she was precious, she was something he must have....

After vacation, in late January, he found that whisky relieved him from the frenzy of work, from the terror of loneliness—then betrayed him and left him the more weary, the more lonely. (8.3.7)

"Honestly, Hinkley, of all the Christians I ever met you take the rottenest advantages. You can lick anybody in the class, and when I think of how you're going to bully the poor heathen when you ge...

"Sure. You bet," Martin agreed with alcoholic fondness. (3.3.3)

[They] rarely went beyond too much lager in the adjacent city of Zenith, or the smiles of a factory girl parading the sordid back avenues, but to Martin, with his pride in taut strength, his joy in...