← There seemed to me a certain inconsistency as between the first and last lines of this. 🔊
← When, in the autumn of '96, he brought out (at his own expense, this time) a third book, his last book, nobody said a word for or against it. 🔊
← A bargain was a bargain, and I was the last man to aid or abet any one in wriggling out of a reasonable obligation. 🔊
← Odd and uncanny it seemed to me that he, Soames, in the flesh, in the waterproof cape, was at this moment living in the last decade of the next century, poring over books not yet written, and seeing and seen by men not yet born. 🔊
← Soames sat crouched forward against the table exactly as when last I had seen him. 🔊
← "It's like my luck," he said, "to spend my last hours on earth with an ass." 🔊
← Soames repeated those last three words in a tone of intense scorn. 🔊
← He had last been seen lunching and dining in my company. 🔊