Цитаты из книги автора Robert Louis Stevenson The Suicide Club

are of too entertaining a description, says he, to be omitted. F

but the continued existence of that hound of hell had begun to prey upon me like a disease

The Prince helped himself at random to a sword.

. It was no longer Florizel, the careless gentleman; it was the Prince of Bohemia, justly incensed and full of deadly purpose, who now raised his head and addressed the captive President of the Suicide Club.

“I see,” thought Brackenbury, “I am in a private gambling saloon, and the cabman was a tout.”

Florizel! Florizel! when will you learn the discretion that suits mortal life, and be no longer dazzled with the image of power at your disposal? Power!” he cried; “who is more powerless? I look upon this young man whom I have sacrificed, Mr. Scuddamore, and feel how small a thing it is to be a Prince.”

my name was once a rallying-cry among the most astute and dangerous spirits of London; and while I was outwardly an object for respect and consideration, my true power resided in the most secret, terrible, and criminal relations

must tell you how the victim for every evening is selected,” returned Mr. Malthus; “and not only the victim, but another member, who is to be the instrument in the club’s hands, and death’s high priest for that occasion.”

I could not bear,” said this remarkable suicide, “to be descended from an ape.”

with his head hanging and his hands plunged deep into his trouser pockets, pale, visibly moist with perspiration, saying never a word, a very wreck of soul and body