← One of these rovers interested me because I was sure he wanted to catch Rothenstein's eye. 🔊
← He wore a soft black hat of clerical kind, but of Bohemian intention, and a gray waterproof cape which, perhaps because it was waterproof, failed to be romantic. 🔊
← I avoided Soames because he made me feel rather vulgar. 🔊
← "It will be the more pleasant, our little deal," the devil went on, "because you are—I mistake not?—a diabolist." 🔊
← Well, he had gone straight to the catalogue, of course,—to the S volumes,—and had stood long before SN-SOF, unable to take this volume out of the shelf because his heart was beating so. 🔊
← And for years I did not set foot even in Soho Square, because on that same night it was there that I paced and loitered, long and long, with some such dull sense of hope as a man has in not straying far from the place where he has lost something. 🔊
← And my shame was the deeper and hotter because he, if you please, stared straight at me with the utmost haughtiness. 🔊