← I was sorry for him; and Rothenstein, though he had not invited him to Chelsea, did ask him to sit down and have something to drink. 🔊
← I asked if I might ask what kind of book it was to be. 🔊
← Rothenstein asked if this was to be the title of the book. 🔊
← "Why were you so determined not to draw him?" I asked. 🔊
← I used to keep it lying carelessly on the table in my room, and whenever a friend took it up and asked what it was about, I would say: "Oh, it's rather a remarkable book. 🔊
← I asked him what he thought of Baudelaire. 🔊
← He looked at me across his glass of absinthe and asked if I had bought a copy. 🔊
← "Has he no talent?" I asked. 🔊
← "That's what you were going to say, isn't it?" he asked. 🔊