← I don't think it lived long enough to justify its name; but at that time there it still was, in Greek Street, a few doors from Soho Square, and almost opposite to that house where, in the first years of the century, a little girl, and with her a boy named De Quincey, made nightly encampment in darkness and hunger among dust and rats and old legal parchments. 🔊
← Only the two nearest to the door, as I went in, were occupied. 🔊
← Berthe had appeared at the kitchen door, thinking the stranger wanted his bill. 🔊
← Air came in listlessly through the open door behind me. 🔊
← My eyes gazed ever away from it to the clock over the kitchen door. 🔊
← He merely looked at Soames and pointed with rigid forefinger to the door. 🔊
← "Try," was the prayer he threw back at me as the devil pushed him roughly out through the door—"Try to make them know that I did exist!" 🔊