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E.W.Hornung

The Amateur Cracksman

  • jackhar citeretfor 3 år siden
    Violence is a confession of terrible incompetence.
  • jackhar citeretfor 3 år siden
    Because two eyes are as good as four and take up less room.
  • jackhar citeretfor 3 år siden
    Art for art's sake is a vile catchword, but I confess it appeals to me.
  • ksynonymhar citeretfor 7 år siden
    "Achilles sulking in his bunk!"
    "What else is there to do?" I asked him as I stretched and yawned. I noted, however, the good-humor of his tone, and did my best to catch it.
  • ksynonymhar citeretfor 7 år siden
    Certainly I would, and I told him so without reserve; not brazenly, you understand; not even now with the gusto of a man who savors such an adventure for its own sake, but doggedly, defiantly, through my teeth, as one who had tried to live honestly and failed. And, while I was about it, I told him much more. Eloquently enough, I daresay, I gave him chapter and verse of my hopeless struggle, my inevitable defeat; for hopeless and inevitable they were to a man with my record, even though that record was written only in one's own soul.
  • ksynonymhar citeretfor 7 år siden
    did not begin pleasantly between Raffles and me. On deck he had overborne my stubborn perplexity by dint of a forced though forceful joviality; in his cabin the gloves were off.
  • ksynonymhar citeretfor 7 år siden
    It did not begin pleasantly between Raffles and me. On deck he had overborne my stubborn perplexity by dint of a forced though forceful joviality; in his cabin the gloves were off.
  • ksynonymhar citeretfor 7 år siden
    did not begin pleasantly between Raffles and me. On deck he had overborne my stubborn perplexity by dint of a forced though forceful joviality; in his cabin the gloves were off.
  • ksynonymhar citeretfor 7 år siden
    And he did so without a blush, describing me as an old schoolfellow whom he had not seen for months, with wilful circumstance and gratuitous detail that filled me at once with confusion, suspicion, and revolt.
  • ksynonymhar citeretfor 7 år siden
    I remember that I broke my last sovereign to get a box of Sullivan's cigarettes for Raffles to smoke on the voyage.
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