Maurice Leblanc

Not quite, Major; one can escape from anywhere. The proof stands before you.

He spoke softly, in a tone of infinite politeness.

“Whew!” said the stranger. “So you load your weapons with air and silence?”

Doors and bells are things that should work without being heard. I am here, and that is the important point.

Arsène Lupin, gentleman-burglar, will return when the furniture is genuine.

“Yes; it’s hardly a brilliant name, is it? And the best thing to do was to change it, don’t you think?”

I am the man who gave her back her son!

“Why? Because I didn’t prepare the plan; and, when I don’t do a thing myself, I am only half-confident.”

“Everything is easy and everything is possible to the man who is bent on winning you.”

Under his red forage-cap, with its three lines of gold braid, his head was wrapped in a wide linen bandage, which hid his forehead and neck.

“Don’t laugh. People don’t laugh when they see the flames of hell before them.”

Under a sky heavy with stars and faintly brighter for a low-hanging sickle moon, the gipsy caravan slept on the turf by the roadside, its shutters closed, its shafts stretched out like arms.

Better men than you have tried and have broken their backs in the process.

I know nothing more exciting than to see all the facts coming up out of the shadow, clustering together, so to speak, and gradually forming the probable truth.

“I don’t care a hang, sir, for your customers! My duty comes before everything; and my duty is at all costs to arrest.⁠ ⁠…”

See what it is to have a bad reputation.

He reminded us of the author who almost died in a fit of laughter provoked by his own play.

Muscles of steel and a number one brain!

That comes of doing one’s best to help people!

“The difficult part of a business,” he often says, “is not the finish, but the start.”