He was, in consequence, a lonely man.

For the majority of human beings are gregarious.

They meet together in order to quarrel.

The majority of women prefer to sit and squabble round one table to seeking another room.

They call it the domestic circle, and spend their time in straining at the family tie in order to prove its strength.
It was Evasio Mon who, standing at the open window of his apartment in the tall house next door to the Posada de los Reyes on the Paseo del Ebro, had observed with the help of a field-glass, that a traveler was crossing the river by the ferry-boat after midnight.