← 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 then—just for a few hours—and 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. 🔊