Quotation from: The Little Lady of the Big House

Written by: Jack London

Before Blake returned, Dick found time to study his face in the glass.
Printed there was the expression that had startled his company the
preceding evening. It had come to stay. Oh, well, was his thought, one
cannot chew his heart between his teeth without leaving some sign of
it.

He strolled out on the sleeping porch and looked at Paula's picture
under the barometers. He turned it to the wall, and sat on the bed and
regarded the blankness for a space. Then he turned it back again.