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...with a prostitute): "When I left, I gave her a few gold pieces. . . . She inquired very kindly: 'Is this all?' meaning obviously did I ask nothing more. 'Yes,' I replied. 'Why,' she said, 'then you are not a man; you are an angel.' 'No,' I objected, 'I am a man all right...
Calm and reasoned argument, replete with facts and figures, seasons the pages of opinions and accordingly the views expressed will obtain a much more favorable hearing than had they been clad in the devil-angel garb which not infrequently characterizes "magazines with a bias...
There the startled receptionist of Manhattan's Roman Catholic Church of the Guardian Angel found this abject fatness slobbering, went to fetch Father Rinschler. The shuddering fat man looked up and shrieked: "Three men are waiting out there to kill me." Father Rinschler called the police, who dragged the sanctuary-seeker away, still gobbling like a terrified turkey...
...last page of his last novel - You Can't Go Home Again - "something has spoken in the night, and told me that I shall die, I know not where." Wolfe died in Baltimore in 1938. He was 37. He had published two long novels, Look Homeward, Angel (1929) and Of Time and the River (1935). Then as if in premonition of his death, Wolfe began to write so furiously that he became the first U. S. writer to leave two complete posthumous novels in the hands of his publisher. They were two of the longest one-volume novels (some...
...Eros had not said good-by to her. The same year Comrade Sand met Pianist Chopin. He was 27 and she was 33. Said he: "What an utterly unsympathetic woman!" Said she: He is "an angel with the face of a grieving woman." The angel had had a hard time in the world since his arrival from Warsaw. When the unsympathetic woman offered him the comforts of her home, the angel accepted. The arrangement was not altogether happy. "After all," wrote Balzac to his great friend, Madame Hanska, "she is a man and wants...