Wallace Ashley Worsley

Wallace Ashley Worsley

The Penalty (1920)

Summary

Portrait of Wallace Ashley Worsley Wallace Ashley Worsley The Penalty (1920)

Blizzard's favorite for the moment.
"A woman who enters that den risks worse than death."
"That's all in the day's work."
"——and I shall walk as men walk."
"I shall be the master of a city!"
"And for my mangled years the city shall pay me——"
"——with the pleasures of a Nero and the powers of a Caesar!"
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Portrait of Wallace Ashley Worsley Wallace Ashley Worsley The Penalty (1920)

Dr. Wilmot Allen, his assistant.
. . . Kenneth Harlan
Blizzard has agents in strange places.
"Barbara asked me to call for her."
The surgeon's daughter, Barbara, had dedicated herself to Art.
. . . Claire Adams
"I'm dreadfully discouraged."
"I've done nothing worth while."
"Some day she'll realize that this is all nonsense."
"Sorry you have to go."
"Haven't I waited long enough? Why don't you chuck it, Barbara?"
"Not until I've done at least one thing that is worth doing."
"And I'm going to do 'Satan—after the fall'."
"If I fail——"
"——I'll marry you."
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Portrait of Wallace Ashley Worsley Wallace Ashley Worsley The Penalty (1920)

But don't come here any more."
"Only your daughter's request can keep me away. She is making a masterpiece."
"Barbara, let me tell you a story."
"He lies! He didn't have to cut them off."
"Behind his visits there is some sinister motive. I can read it in his eyes."
"If you have made him what he is, it is all the more our duty to help him."
"Blizzard's man, O'Hagan, is back in town."
"He has organized thousands of disgruntled foreign laborers."
"Hats and men—what's the devil up to?"
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