Richard Harding Davis,
The Last Ride Together. A Sketch Containing Three Points of View
(1896)
“ There were just sooty gray brick tenements and gasworks on one side, and the railroad cutting on the other, and semaphores and telegraph wires over head, and smoke and grime everywhere, it looked exactly like the sort of street that should lead to a prison, and it seemed a pity to take a smart hansom and a good cob into it. ”
Richard Harding Davis,
The Last Ride Together. A Sketch Containing Three Points of View
(1896)
“ Of course, I had prepared myself for this after a fashion, but now I see that somehow I never really thought I would be in here, and all my friends outside, and everything going on the same as though I wasn't alive somewhere. It's like telling yourself that your horse can't possibly pull off a race, so that you won't mind so much if he don't, but you always feel just as bad when he comes in a loser. ”
Richard Harding Davis,
The Last Ride Together. A Sketch Containing Three Points of View
(1896)
“ A man can't fool himself into thinking one way when he is hoping the other. "But I am glad it is over, and settled. It was a great bore not knowing your luck and having the thing hanging over your head every morning when you woke up. Indeed it was quite a relief when the counsel got all through arguing over those proclamations, and the Chief Justice summed up, but I nearly went to sleep when I found he was going all over it again to the jury. ”
