← and there arose between us a friendship that has grown ever warmer, and been more and more valued by me, with every passing year. 🔊
← There, on that October evening—there, in that exuberant vista of gilding and crimson velvet set amidst all those opposing mirrors and upholding caryatids, with fumes of tobacco ever rising to the painted and pagan ceiling, and with the hum of presumably cynical conversation broken into so sharply now and again by the clatter of dominoes shuffled on marble tables, I drew a deep breath and, "This indeed," said I to myself, "is life!" 🔊
← They made a queer contrast in that sunlit room, Soames sitting haggard in that hat and cape, which nowhere at any season had I seen him doff, and this other, this keenly vital man, at sight of whom I more than ever wondered whether he were a diamond merchant, a conjurer, or the head of a private detective agency. 🔊
← "It's the only important thing I ever heard you say," he continued. 🔊
← Parfaitement. Time—an illusion. Past and future—they are as ever present as the present, or at any rate only what you call 'just round the corner.' 🔊
← My eyes gazed ever away from it to the clock over the kitchen door. 🔊
← He asked what the human race had ever done for him. 🔊
← And he added, with a touch of his old manner, but with more dignity than I had ever known in him, "Parlons d'autre chose." 🔊
← You wouldn't say so if you had ever seen him, and I assure you that in no period would Soames be anything but dim. 🔊
← I was walking one afternoon along the rue d'Antin, and I saw him advancing from the opposite direction, overdressed as ever, and swinging an ebony cane and altogether behaving as though the whole pavement belonged to him. 🔊