Sublime

Hitchcockian protagonist,

“Aren’t you going to load it, Papa?” the boy Benny asked from behind.

Adventure is the champagne of life, but I prefer my champagne and my adventures dry.

A poor woman in a poor public-house was broken with a ruinous fine for giving a child a sip of shandy-gaff. Nobody supposed that the law verbally stigmatised the action for being done by a poor person in a poor public-house. But most certainly nobody will dare to pretend that a rich man giving a boy a sip of champagne would have been punished so he

Gold, for the instant, lost its lustre in his eyes, for there were countless treasures of the heart which it could never purchase.

Molly Colum topped him, saying: “The only difference between the rich and other people is that the rich have more money.” Bested by a woman, Hemingway salved his ego by expropriating the witticism, having

O no longer wants any visitors to the apartment unless he expressly invites them: “I don’t have time to be bored!”