Sanders played his entire professional career with the Boston Celtics. He played in the NBA Finals eight times, and won eight times. He is one of three players to have done that. After he retired, he served as head coach at Harvard for four seasons, the first black head coach at an Ivy League school.
Well, I take it that when a man comes to die, love is more to him than a kingdom: it may be, if we could see truly, that it is more to him even while he lives.
(from Rupert of Hentzau, by Anthony Hope)
"Lad," he said, "don't say 'No!' Here's the finest lady alive sick for her lover, and the finest country in the world sick for its true king, and the best friends - aye, by Heaven, the best friends - man ever had, sick to call you master. I know nothing about your conscience, but this I know: the King's dead, and the place is empty; and I don't see what Almighty God sent you here for unless it was to fill it. Come, lad - for our love and her honour! While he was alive I'd have killed you sooner than let you take it. He's dead. Now - for our love and her honour, lad!"
(from Rupert of Hentzau, by Anthony Hope)
In his novel, Rupert of Hentzau, Anthony Hope makes reference to "a brown wideawake hat." This is a broad brimmed countryman's hat with a low crown, similar to a "slouch hat."
In moments of excitement and intense feeling a man makes light of obstacles which look large enough as he turns reflective eyes on them in the quiet of after days.
(from Rupert of Hentzau, by Anthony Hope)
It is strange, yet certain, that the zenith of courage and the acme of villainy can both be bought for the price of a lady's glove; among such outcasts as those from whom Bauer drew his recruits the murder of a man is held serious only when the police are by, and death at the hands of him they seek to kill is no more than an everyday risk of their employment.
(from Rupert of Hentzau, by Anthony Hope)
Helga never will admit that she is clever, yet I find she discovers from me what she wants to know, and I suspect hides successfully the small matters of which she in her wifely discretion deems I had best remain ignorant.
(from Rupert of Hentzau, by Anthony Hope)
We find this word in the novel Rupert of Hentzau, by Anthony Hope. It means "a financial inducement, gratuity, or bribe."
Our fears defeated common sense, and our conjectures outran possibility. Sapt was the first to recover from this foolish mood, and he rated us soundly, not sparing even the Queen herself. With a laugh we regained some of our equanimity, and felt rather ashamed of our weakness
(from Rupert of Hentsau, by Anthony Hope)
Marla Landi was another actress who married into the realm of bluebloods. She was Lady Dashwood after her marriage to Sir Francis Dashwood, 11th Baronet, in 1977. The first Sir Francis was a British merchant, landowner and politician who sat in the house of Commons and was knighted in 1707.
I looked full in her eyes; she met mine with a blinking imperturbability. There is no face so inscrutable as a clever old woman's when she is on her guard.
(from Rupert of Hentzau, by Anthony Hope)
Sapt attended her to the door, set a sentry at the end of the pssage with orders that Her Majesty should on no pretence be disturbed, promised her very audibly to return as soon as he possibly could, and respectfully closed the door after she had entered. The Constable was well aware of the value in a secret business of doing openly all that can safely be done with openness.
(Magicians use the same principle of obscuring one movement by making another very visible.)
(from Rupert of Hentzau, by Anthony Hope)
At one o'clock Colonel Sapt came out. "Go to bed till six," said he to Bernenstein.
"I am not sleepy."
"No, but you will be at eight if you don't sleep now."
"Is the Queen coming out, Colonel?"
"In a minute, Lieutenant."
"I should like to kiss her hand."
"Well, if you think it worth waiting a quarter of an hour for," said Sapt, with a slight smile.
"You said a minute, sir."
"So did she," answered the Constable.
(from Rupert of Hentzau, by Anthony Hope)
There was a moment's silence; Rudolf drew his shirt over his head and tucked it into his trousers. "Give me the jacket and waistcoat," he said. "I feel deuced damp underneath, though."
"You'll soon get dry," grinned Sapt. "You'll be kept moving, you see."
"I've lost my hat."
"Seems to me you've lost your head, too."
"You'll find me both, eh, Sapt?"
"As good as your own, anyhow," growled the Constable.
(from Rupert of Hentzau, by Anthony Hope)
Now when a man suspects danger, let him not spend his time in asking whether there be really danger, or in upbraiding himself for timidity, but let him face his cowardice and act as though the danger were real.
(from Rupert of Hentzau, by Anthony Hope)
"It is not enough, Fritz, to have no women in a house, though brother Michael shows some wisdom there. If you want safety, you must have non within fifty miles."
(from The Prisoner of Zenda, by Anthony Hope)
She was a "B" movie actress that you probably never heard of. However, if you have children, you probably have seen her on television. Disorder in the Court is one of the most famous of the Three Stooges films. In it, Karen is asked by the court to demonstrate the dance she does at a night club, where the Stooges are musicians. Hardly anyone knows her name, but almost everyone recognizes Kaaren because of that one slapstick movie short.
For my part, if a man must needs be a knave, I would have him a debonair knave, and I liked Rupert Hentzau better than his long-faced, close-eyed companions. It makes your sin no worse, as I conceive, to do it a la mode and stylishly.
(from The Prisoner of Zenda, by Anthony Hope)
Ah, but a man cannot be held to write down in cold blood the wild and black thoughts that storm his brain when an uncontrolled passion has battered a breach for them. Yet, unless he sets up as a saint, he need not hate himself for them. He is better employed, as it humbly seems to me, in giving thanks that power to resist was vouchsafed to him, than in fretting over wicked impulses which come unsought and extort an unwilling hospitality from the weakness of our nature.
(from The Prisoner of Zenda, by Anthony Hope)
I came across this implement in The Prisoner of Zenda, by Anthony Hope. The bull’s-eye lantern, with one or more sides of bulging glass, was in popular use from the early 18th century, similar devices having been made at least as early as the 13th century. Dark until it was suddenly switched on by opening its door, it focused its light to some extent and served the purpose of the modern flashlight. I cannot get an image to copy, but you can look it up.
"We must bury that poor fellow," said I.
"No time," said Sapt.
"I'll do it."
"Hang you!" he grinned. "I make you a king, and - Well, do it. Go and fetch him, while I look to the horses. He can't lie very deep, but I doubt if he'll care about it."
(from The Prisoner of Zenda, by Anthony Hope)
