illusion

"In life there are illusions of good and evil, but"—his voice trailed away to a murmur in which the words "vieux jeu" and "rococo" were faintly audible. 🔊

Soames's dignity was an illusion of mine. 🔊

One day, in the first week of June, 1897, that illusion went. 🔊

Parfaitement. Timean illusion. Past and futurethey are as ever present as the present, or at any rate only what you call 'just round the corner.' 🔊

In his first visit Soames was a creature of flesh and blood, whereas the creatures among whom he was projected were but ghosts, I take itsolid, palpable, vocal, but unconscious and automatic ghosts, in a building that was itself an illusion. 🔊

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