← There, on that October evening—there, in that exuberant vista of gilding and crimson velvet set amidst all those opposing mirrors and upholding caryatids, with fumes of tobacco ever rising to the painted and pagan ceiling, and with the hum of presumably cynical conversation broken into so sharply now and again by the clatter of dominoes shuffled on marble tables, I drew a deep breath and, "This indeed," said I to myself, "is life!" 🔊
← And I was very near indeed to reverence when he said he had another book coming out soon. 🔊
← There was a sort of music in his prose, not indeed, arresting, but perhaps, I thought, haunting, and laden, perhaps, with meanings as deep as Mallarmé's own. 🔊
← In London I regarded myself as very much indeed a graduate now—one whom no Soames could ruffle. 🔊
← Almost I wished I had gone with Soames, not, indeed, to stay in the reading-room, but to sally forth for a brisk sight-seeing walk around a new London. 🔊
← I remember saying at last that if indeed I was destined to write about him, the supposed "stauri" had better have at least a happy ending. 🔊
← Dread was indeed rather blunted in me by his looking so absurdly like a villain in a melodrama. 🔊