But misfortunes never come singly.

I cut the emergency switch just in time to keep 'Winnie Mae' from making an exhibition of herself by standing on her nose. That would have been fatal to our hopes.

It was just the way Wiley would have wished, ... Coming home in an airplane.

We didn't want to create a stir, ... so we drove up to the edge of the crowd where we could get a view and sat there and waited.

Nothing exists singly on earth.

The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.