← And thus the omission found by me was an all the deadlier record of poor Soames's failure to impress himself on his decade. 🔊
← But I did not take my failure as wholly incompatible with a meaning in Soames's mind. 🔊
← Failure, if it be a plain, unvarnished, complete failure, and even though it be a squalid failure, has always a certain dignity. 🔊
← 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. 🔊
← "Failure?" I said heartily. 🔊