← He looked at me across his glass of absinthe and asked if I had bought a copy. 🔊
← Soames removed the cigarette from his mouth and dropped it into his glass of Sauterne. 🔊
← I filled his glass with wine. 🔊
← Again and again I filled his glass, and always, mechanically, he emptied it; but the wine kindled no spark of enterprise in him. 🔊
← I remember pausing before a wide door-step and wondering if perchance it was on this very one that the young De Quincey lay ill and faint while poor Ann flew as fast as her feet would carry her to Oxford Street, the "stony-hearted stepmother" of them both, and came back bearing that "glass of port wine and spices" but for which he might, so he thought, actually have died. 🔊