← Men were constantly coming in through the swing-doors and wandering slowly up and down in search of vacant tables or of tables occupied by friends. 🔊
← I used to keep it lying carelessly on the table in my room, and whenever a friend took it up and asked what it was about, I would say: "Oh, it's rather a remarkable book. 🔊
← But my friend moved not a muscle. 🔊
← With an inhibitive gesture to my friend, "Mr. Soames," I said emphatically to the devil, "is a Catholic diabolist"; 🔊
← but my poor friend did the devil's bidding, not mine; 🔊
← I pondered Ann's fate, the cause of her sudden vanishing from the ken of her boy friend; 🔊
← Well informed in all things, the devil must have known that my friend would gain nothing by his visit to futurity. 🔊