“There was nothing in sight to cause any man fear. Behind him rippled the Dee, and all around was desolation. Ardee itself lay a good two miles in the rear, burned and laid waste six weeks before, and ten miles to the south lay Drogheda. Indeed, as the horseman gazed about, he caught sight of a faint glare on the horizon that drew a bitter word from his lips.””
“He lived always in the past, never in the present. He was cut out for an academic life, where he could be walled in with his books out of the world, and could peacefully study and run down and transfix some hapless word or subject, until he had it feeding out of his hand.””
“I never met a Russian yet that wasn’t a liar six ways from the post! There’s no ninth commandment in their decalogue.””
“Since we cannot go back, we must go forward.””
“Like many another who had passed through the Great War, she now laughed at the worst which the world might proffer. “One who has been through hell,” she would say, laughing, “does not fear purgatory, eh?” And this was true, Rosemonde feared nothing.””
“those strangely uncompleted things which go to make up life”
H. Bedford-Jones was a prolific American author known for his contributions to the genre of adventure fiction and pulp literature. Born in 1887, he began his writing career in the early 20th century, ...
“as though some elder fires of evil had burned out much of the inner man, purging him of conscience and all spiritual things.””