“He HUMMED a snatch(small bit) of a SONG from the Folies Bergere”

“GOD makes some men poets. Some HE makes kings, some beggars. Me HE made a hunter.”

“Well, doubtless you had PURITAN (English PROTESTANT) ancestors. So many Americans appear to have had.”

“He doubled on his trail again, recalling all the LORE of the fox hunt… ‘I have played the FOX, now I must play the CAT of the FABLE’”

“Sometimes an ANGRY GOD OF THE HIGH SEAS sends them to me”

“He was dressed faultlessly in the tweeds (plaid suit) of a country squire (gentleman)”

“I went into the army-it was expected of noblemen’s sons-and for a time commanded a division of Cossack cavalry”

Ivan once had the honor of serving as official knouter to the Great White Czar, and he has his own ideas of sport.

"Hunting? GREAT GUNS, General Zaroff, what you speak of is murder."

Ivan laid out an evening suit (see picture) , and Rainsford, as he put it on, noticed that it came from a London tailor who ordinarily cut and sewed for none below the rank of duke.

"After the DEBACLE in RUSSIA I left the country, for it was imprudent for an officer of the Czar to stay there. Many noble Russians lost everything.

It's like finding a SNUFFBOX in a LIMOSINE .

“One does not expect nowadays to find a young man of the educated class, even in America, with such a naïve, and, if I may say so, mid-Victorian point of view.”

The general took from his pocket a gold cigarette case and offered his guest a long black cigarette with a silver tip; it was perfumed and gave off a smell like incense.