“With her mouth closed she was a rather pretty girl.””
Quotes by Ernest A. Bell
“How do you feel?" "I feel like hell." "Have another?" "It won't do any good." "Try it. You can't tell; maybe this is the one that gets it. Hey, waiter! Another absinthe for this señor!””
“The aficionado, or lover of the bullfight, may be said, broadly, then, to be one who has this sense of the tragedy and ritual of the fight so that the minor aspects are not important except as they relate to the whole. Either you have this or you have not, just as, without implying any comparison, you have or have not an ear for music. Without an ear for music the principle impression of an auditor at a symphony concert might be of the motions of the players of the double bass, just as the spectator at the bullfight might remember only the obvious grotesqueness of a picador.””
“What are you called?" "Georgette. How are you called?" "Jacob." "That's a Flemish name." "American too." "You're not Flamand?" "No, American." "Good, I detest Flamands.””
“She was a Canadian and had all their easy social graces.””
Ernest A. Bell was an American author and social reformer known for his advocacy against the exploitation of young girls in the early 20th century. His notable work, "Fighting the Traffic in Young Gir...