A biography for Francis Marion Crawfordhasn’t been written yet.
“I have seen an evil thing this night,' he said; 'I have seen how the dead drink the blood of the living. And the blood is the life.”
“To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.”
“No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.”
“Death is only a translation of life into another language.”
“I will come,' the priest answered, 'for I have read in old books of these strange beings which are neither quick nor dead, and which lie ever fresh in their graves, stealing out in the dusk to taste life and blood.”