← Those who knew Rothenstein were pointing him out to those who knew him only by name. 🔊
← It's by a man whom I know." 🔊
← The little book, bought by me in Oxford, lies before me as I write. 🔊
← But there was still a spiritual pathos about him, sharpened for me now by the possibility that even the praises of The Preston Telegraph might not have been forthcoming had he not been the son of a Preston man. 🔊
← Odd and uncanny it seemed to me that he, Soames, in the flesh, in the waterproof cape, was at this moment living in the last decade of the next century, poring over books not yet written, and seeing and seen by men not yet born. 🔊
← Strange that the words I here copy out for you were copied out for me by poor Soames just eighty-two years hence! 🔊
← I found that by murmuring the words aloud (a device which I commend to my reader) I was able to master them little by little. 🔊
← How is it that the author, though I have here mentioned him by name and have quoted the exact words he is going to write, is not going to grasp the obvious corollary that I have invented nothing? 🔊
← 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. 🔊
← Yes; but I maintain that he was induced to do so by fraud. 🔊