← I learned afterward that he was the son of an unsuccessful and deceased bookseller in Preston, but had inherited an annuity of three hundred pounds from a married aunt, and had no surviving relatives of any kind. 🔊
← "A hundred years hence!" he murmured, as in a trance. 🔊
← A hundred years hence! Think of it! 🔊
← But of a hundred years hence, yes? 🔊
← "A hundred years hence, as now," he smiled, "no smoking allowed in the reading-room. You would better therefore—" 🔊