"Clubable" Quotes from Famous Books
... in his daze he blew out two matches in succession. He crushed the cigarette in his palm, and moved a few steps towards the lobby. Great Heaven, was it possible that John Starkweather had condemned Henry the fashionable, Henry the clubable, Henry the exclusive to a year of this? Was this his punishment for the past? Was this the price of his future? This picayune sordidness, and vulgarity and decay? Evidently, it was so ... — Rope • Holworthy Hall |