Carolina QuotesShe is pale but affectionate, clinging to his arm — always clinging to his arm. Any one can see that she is a peach and of the cling variety.
O. Henry Carolinian
Source
"A Tempered Wind"
- work
- The Gentle Grafter (1908)
- year
- 1908
Cite this record
“She is pale but affectionate, clinging to his arm — always c…” O. Henry. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-7FF0830E73. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/7ff0830e73
More from O. Henry
I know you. I have heard of you all my life. I know now what a scourge you have been to your country. Instead of killing fools you have been murdering the youth and genius that are necessary to make a people live and grow great. You are a fool yourself, Holmes; you began killing off the brightest and best of our countrymen three generations ago, when the old and obsolete standards of society and honor and orthodoxy were narrow and bigoted. You proved that when you put your murderous mark upon my friend Kerner — the wisest chap I ever knew in my life.
Not very long ago some one invented the assertion that there were only "Four Hundred" people in New York City who were really worth noticing. But a wiser man has arisen — the census taker — and his larger estimate of human interest has been preferred in marking out the field of these little stories of the "Four Million."
East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State.