He could talk through twenty cigarettes on any topic that you brought up. And he never sat up when he could lie down; and never stood when he could s… - O. Henry

Su rostro tenía el perfil de los veinte años y las arrugas de los cuarenta. Podía haber vivido aquella diferencia de años en un período de doce meses.

Ransie was a narrow six feet of sallow brown skin and yellow hair. The imperturbability of the mountains hung upon him like a suit of armor. The woman was calicoed, angled, snuff-brushed, and weary with unknown desires. Through it all gleamed a faint protest of cheated youth unconscious of its loss.

Eight dollars a week or a million a year — what is the difference? A mathematician or a wit would give you the wrong answer.