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I could see that what was upmost in his mind was the fact that I had read Negations. 🔊

I sadly suspect that Soames could not have made more of it than she. 🔊

I had hoped that when next I met the poet I could congratulate him on having made a stir, for I fancied he was not so sure of his intrinsic greatness as he seemed. 🔊

Harland was the most joyous of men and most generous of critics, and he hated to talk of anything about which he couldn't be enthusiastic. 🔊

He had a sort of weak doggedness which I could not but admire. 🔊

I thought our neighbor was amused at my failure to interest Soames, and so, as I could not explain to him that my insistence was merely charitable, I became silent. 🔊

If I could come back to life thenjust for a few hoursand go to the reading-room and read! 🔊

Or, better still, if I could be projected now, at this moment, into that future, into that reading-room, just for this one afternoon! 🔊

I couldn't help it; I laughed. 🔊

I did not in my heart believe that any dash for freedom could save him. 🔊

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