← It was a proud day for me when I—I was included. 🔊
← No one is a better judge of literature than Rothenstein; but it wouldn't have done to tell him so in those days, and I knew that I must form an unaided judgment of "Negations." 🔊
← Not to buy a book of which I had met the author face to face would have been for me in those days an impossible act of self-denial. 🔊
← "Of the British Museum. I go there every day." 🔊
← Nevertheless, I did, a day or two later, tentatively ask Harland if he knew anything of the work of a man called Enoch Soames. 🔊
← Also, it had not that expression of faint happiness which on that day was discernible, yes, in Soames's countenance. 🔊
← It was the sort of thing that in old days he would have said for effect; but it carried conviction now. 🔊
← But on the evening of that day Soames went, too. 🔊
← (To this day I have never made out that word.) 🔊
← Of him I have caught sight several times, here and there, since that day at the Vingtième. 🔊