Ralph Henry Barbour

“ Beryl promptly dropped her bag with a clatter of clubs. As Allan stepped forward to pick it up, she waved him haughtily back. “I shall pick it up myself, thank you. After the emphasis you put on women, I intend to drop it every twenty feet, just to prove that we're not so helpless as you think.” ”

“ It's a challenge to Fate. I studied one year at the Columbia Law School, and then went to Paris and had a fling at art. After three years of it, I discovered that at best I could never be more than a mediocre painter, and there were so many others who could do real work, the sort I never could. ”

“ It was necessary for them to be leisurely since just holing out on the distant green were George Smith and the elder Miss Mellen. The latter was undergoing instruction and was now playing her eleventh stroke. Neither Allan nor Beryl had a caddie. Allan declared that to use one unless playing in a championship match was ridiculous. “To see a full-grown man striding along followed by a twelve-year-old boy dragging a bag of clubs as tall as he is,” he declared, “reminds me of a man out walking with a valet to carry his cane! Mellen came puffing into the taproom the other day, just about finished. ”

“ Unfortunately—or fortunately, as you look at it—my stay-at-home progenitors managed to accumulate a good deal of money. That rather handicaps one, you see. Why sell things or paint pictures or write books unless the world needs your services or you need the money? ”

“ For instance, his plan of requiring all foreign missionaries to live for six months in Paris or Vienna before assuming their duties seemed most strange. He had explained that the idea was to complete the missionaries' education, but for her part she thought it would be a very dangerous venture!
Meanwhile Allan showed no disposition to leave Alderbury. He played a good deal of golf—he was a brilliant rather than a careful performer, and indulged in a good many experiments which more often than not resulted disastrously to his game ”