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• Knoxville is where the Old South ends and the rustbelt begins. A hotbed of Union sympathy during the Civil War and more industrial than agricultural, the city bears many cultural similarities with manufacturing centers farther north and east, a direct connection to the Old World through the immigration of Welsh workers and Eastern European merchant...
• Market Square. It was almost empty at this hour, but here and there, along the pavement streaked with horse urine,
• He felt that although his father loved their home and loved all of them, he was more lonely than the contentment of this family love could help; that it even increased his loneliness, or made it hard for him not to be lonely.
• He felt that sitting out here, he was not lonely; or if he was, that he felt on good terms with the loneliness; that he was a homesick man, and that here on the rock, though he might be more homesick than ever, he was well.
• We mustn’t trouble ourselves with these things we can’t understand. We just have to be sure that God knows best.”