← He knew them all by heart. 🔊
← "I explained it all in the preface to Negations. 🔊
← I wondered who the "young woman" was and what she had made of it all. 🔊
← Soames was standing near it, in his soft hat and his waterproof cape, all through the afternoon. 🔊
← All the same, I had scored. 🔊
← 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. 🔊
← "Th laibrer iz werthi ov hiz hire" an that iz aul. 🔊
← "In life and in art," he said, "all that matters is an inevitable ending." 🔊
← The sheen of his tilted hat and of his shirt-front, the repeated twists he was giving to his mustache, and most of all the magnificence of his sneer, gave token that he was there only to be foiled. 🔊
← 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. 🔊