Quotation from: The Strength of the Strong

Written by: Jack London

"Oh, aye, all savun' Samuel oz was drownded."

At the mention of Samuel I could have sworn to a strange light in
her eyes, and it seemed to me, as by some telepathic flash, that I
divined in her a tremendous wistfulness, an immense yearning. It
seemed to me that here was the key to her inscrutableness, the clue
that if followed properly would make all her strangeness plain. It
came to me that here was a contact and that for the moment I was
glimpsing into the soul of her. The question was tickling on my
tongue, but she forestalled me.