Guy Wetmore Carryl

“ So long as you do it to my satisfaction, I see fit to pay you, and pay you well; and you’re free to drink like the swine you are, and go to the devil your own way. But the indispensable man doesn’t exist, my good Jules, and the moment you kick over the traces, out you go! ”

“ Look at those hands, you whelp! I’ve seen you grovel, and I’ve heard you whine, and what a man will do once he’ll do again under like conditions. It’s too late for you to pit your will against mine, my friend! ”

“ Radwalader closed the piano gently.
“If it affords you any satisfaction to hear it,” he answered, rising with a yawn, “I think it likely that the injunction is entirely superfluous. We sha’n’t gain anything by prolonging this interview. It’s four minutes to six, and I must dress for dinner. When I want you, I’ll stick the blue jar in the window. Meanwhile, here’s fifty francs on account. I’ll get Mr. Vane to pay you in advance.”
Vicot stood silent for a moment, the bill crackling as he folded it between his trembling fingers. ”

“ Other men see centipedes and blue rats: you see Baxter, that’s all. Cut off the liquor, and you won’t know there ever was such a thing as a Morgue. Baxter was a silly ass. He tried to do things with ten thousand francs that a sane man wouldn’t attempt with a hundred. I let him go his pace, and I was as surprised as the next chap when I found how short his rope was. I held his notes for double the amount he had in the beginning. Did I come down on his family for them, after he chose the easiest way of evading payment? Not a bit of it. I burned them.”
“Policy,” commented Vicot briefly. ”