← But ah! hadn't both John Lane and Aubrey Beardsley suggested that I should write an essay for the great new venture that was afoot—The Yellow Book? 🔊
← Twice again in the course of the month I went to the New English, and on both occasions Soames himself was on view there. 🔊
← I explained to her that Mr. Soames had been called away, and that both he and I would be dining here. 🔊
← I remember pausing before a wide door-step and wondering if perchance it was on this very one that the young De Quincey lay ill and faint while poor Ann flew as fast as her feet would carry her to Oxford Street, the "stony-hearted stepmother" of them both, and came back bearing that "glass of port wine and spices" but for which he might, so he thought, actually have died. 🔊