← I had hoped that when next I met the poet I could congratulate him on having made a stir, for I fancied he was not so sure of his intrinsic greatness as he seemed. 🔊
← I was but able to say, rather coarsely, when next I did see him, that I hoped Fungoids was "selling splendidly." 🔊
← I hoped I looked less vulgar than he in contrast with Soames. 🔊
← What you have said just now gives me furiously to hope." 🔊
← I hope so, for I never went to the Vingtième again. 🔊
← And for years I did not set foot even in Soho Square, because on that same night it was there that I paced and loitered, long and long, with some such dull sense of hope as a man has in not straying far from the place where he has lost something. 🔊
← And I hope these words will meet the eye of some contemporary rival to Nupton and be the undoing of Nupton. 🔊