← Nor is there a counterpoise in the thought that if he had had some measure of success he might have passed, like those others, out of my mind, to return only at the historian's beck. 🔊
← I liked Rothenstein not less than I feared him; 🔊
← Of "the older men," as he called them, he seemed to like only Milton. 🔊
← But I liked the third, it was so bracingly unorthodox, even according to the tenets of Soames's peculiar sect in the faith. 🔊
← "You don't suppose I care, do you?" he said, with something like a snarl. 🔊
← It was very like him, and very like Rothenstein to have done it. 🔊
← (I rather liked them, really.) 🔊
← What should you know of the feelings of a man like me? 🔊
← "It's like my luck," he said, "to spend my last hours on earth with an ass." 🔊