He had, in fact, got everything from the church and Sunday School, except, perhaps, any longing whatever for decency and kindness and reason.

He was born to be a senator. He never said anything important, and he always said it sonorously.

Though Frank Shallard might have come to admire pictures, great music, civilized furniture, he had been trained to regard them as worldly, and to content himse…

Elmer Gantry was drunk. He was eloquently drunk, lovingly and pugnaciously drunk.