Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories - French, Spanish, Italian, Latin Stories Quotes

“relies of the past. But the lovely Piedmontese must”
― Julian Hawthorne, Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories - French, Spanish, Italian, Latin Stories

“5   Protested.”
― Julian Hawthorne, Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories - French, Spanish, Italian, Latin Stories

“Permit me to explain. Fear—and the boldest men may feel fear—is something horrible, an atrocious sensation, a sort of decomposition of the soul, a terrible spasm of brain and heart, the very memory of which brings a shudder of anguish, but when one is brave he feels it neither under fire nor in the presence of sure death nor in the face of any well-known danger. It springs up under certain abnormal conditions, under certain mysterious influences in the presence of vague peril. Real fear is a sort of reminiscence of fantastic terror of the past. A man who believes in ghosts and imagines he sees a specter in the darkness must feel fear in all its horror.”
― Julian Hawthorne, Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories - French, Spanish, Italian, Latin Stories

“distracted dreams. She thought of the silent antechambers hung with Oriental tapestry, lit by tall bronze candelabra, and of the two great footmen in knee breeches who sleep in the big armchairs, made”
― Julian Hawthorne, Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories - French, Spanish, Italian, Latin Stories

“God made man in His own image, but man has certainly paid Him back again.”
― Julian Hawthorne, Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories - French, Spanish, Italian, Latin Stories

“Everything that surrounds us, everything that we see without looking at it, everything that we touch without knowing it, everything that we handle without feeling it, all that we meet without clearly distinguishing it, has a rapid, surprising and inexplicable effect upon us and upon our organs, and through them on our ideas and on our heart itself.”
― Julian Hawthorne, Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories - French, Spanish, Italian, Latin Stories

“How life is strange and changeful! How little a thing is needed for us to be lost or to be saved!”
― Julian Hawthorne, Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories - French, Spanish, Italian, Latin Stories

“The Necklace”
― Julian Hawthorne, Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories - French, Spanish, Italian, Latin Stories