← It was as I feared: he was not there. 🔊
← Even as it was, I respected him. 🔊
← Of "the older men," as he called them, he seemed to like only Milton. 🔊
← The little book, bought by me in Oxford, lies before me as I write. 🔊
← I had hoped that when next I met the poet I could congratulate him on having made a stir, for I fancied he was not so sure of his intrinsic greatness as he seemed. 🔊
← Had I known that he really and firmly believed in the greatness of what he as an artist had achieved, I might not have shunned him. 🔊
← Only the two nearest to the door, as I went in, were occupied. 🔊
← "I am a man of business," he said, "and always I would put things through 'right now,' as they say in the States. 🔊
← But of course the bargain, such as it was, is off." 🔊
← I was miserably aware, as I passed the devil, that I nodded and smiled to him. 🔊