Quotation from: The Valley of the Moon

Written by: Jack London

"You and I get along together with it fine," she equivocated; for
in such matters she did not deem the untruth a wrong.

Spring was on when the strike came in the railroad shops. The
Sunday before it was called, Saxon and Billy had dinner at Bert's
house. Saxon's brother came, though he had found it impossible to
bring Sarah, who refused to budge from her household rut. Bert
was blackly pessimistic, and they found him singing with sardonic
glee: