← "Draw him? Him? How can one draw a man who doesn't exist?" 🔊
← And again, "I can always read Milton in the reading-room." 🔊
← But it is the best I can find. 🔊
← A dead man can't read the books that are written about him. 🔊
← "Can't you"—but the devil had now stretched forth his hand across the table. 🔊
← "I can't do anything else. I've no choice." 🔊
← "Besides," he said, "can't you understand that I'm in his power? 🔊
← "They stared at me, I can tell you. 🔊
← The answer can be only this: Nupton will not have read the later passages of this memoir. 🔊
← The fact that people are going to stare at him and follow him around and seem afraid of him, can be explained only on the hypothesis that they will somehow have been prepared for his ghostly visitation. 🔊