afternoon

Soames was standing near it, in his soft hat and his waterproof cape, all through the afternoon. 🔊

Or, better still, if I could be projected now, at this moment, into that future, into that reading-room, just for this one afternoon! 🔊

"You wish," he resumed, "to visit nowthis afternoon as-ever-isthe reading-room of the British Museum, yes? 🔊

You wish to be in the reading-room just as it will be on the afternoon of June 3, 1997? 🔊

I have but the haziest recollection of what I did, where I wandered, in the glaring sunshine of that endless afternoon. 🔊

Endless that afternoon was. 🔊

Once or twice in the afternoon it had for an instant occurred to me that perhaps his journey was not to be fruitless, that perhaps we had all been wrong in our estimate of the works of Enoch Soames. 🔊

You realize that the reading-room into which Soames was projected by the devil was in all respects precisely as it will be on the afternoon of June 3, 1997. 🔊

You realize, therefore, that on that afternoon, when it comes round, there the selfsame crowd will be, and there Soames will be, punctually, he and they doing precisely what they did before. 🔊

I was walking one afternoon along the rue d'Antin, and I saw him advancing from the opposite direction, overdressed as ever, and swinging an ebony cane and altogether behaving as though the whole pavement belonged to him. 🔊

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