Guy Wetmore Carryl

“ A pressure of his fingers on Andrew’s arm lent the phrase the emphasis of a hand-shake. “Miss Palffy is charming — so clean and straight, and, to say nothing of her beauty, with such high standards. To be quite frank with you, I’m a bit surprised that you got off so easily. But, since you have, there’s nothing to be said, except that she’s a stunner, and I can understand now how much all this has meant to you. What a thing to have standing between you, eh? ”

“ As-tu vu la ferme?” — or a driver’s injunction to his horse — “Tu prends done racine, saucisse” — or a girl’s laugh, or the squawk of a tram-horn, or the cries of the camelots — “Voyez l’Parispor! Voici la Pa-resse! Voyez l’D-rrr-oi ’d’l’homme!” The importance of the phenomenon was not significant. It was all Paris, and Thomas Radwalader was very glad to be alive. When he left the yellow cab in the Cour du Hâvre, the driver had fifty centimes pourboire, though it was not like his passengers to go beyond three sous. ”

“ Your most astute strategist is the general ready, at any stage of the campaign, to authorize a complete change of plan, if the circumstances call for it, and to make for the end in view along wholly altered lines. ”

“ The Braddocks of warfare are those who at all hazards persist in the course at first laid out.
Radwalader, contrary to his custom, did not leave his apartment until mid-afternoon of the following day. He carried a valise, and stopped for a moment on the step to snuff the fresh air with appreciation. Then he said “Psst!” and the yellow cab which was standing at the comer of the avenue squeaked into motion and drew up at the kerb. ”

“ They had rounded L’Esturgeon now, and were walking along the southern side of the Pont de Poissy, close to the rail. Radwalader’s pieces were all in place for the opening of the new game.
“When a chap’s only been pulled out of a horrible mess by the merest chance, and when, into the bargain, he’s been engaged to the one-and-only for something under twenty-four hours, he is apt to do considerable slobbering. ”