← The dim man was now again approaching our table, and this time he made up his mind to pause in front of it. 🔊
← It's by a man whom I know." 🔊
← Of "the older men," as he called them, he seemed to like only Milton. 🔊
← But there was still a spiritual pathos about him, sharpened for me now by the possibility that even the praises of The Preston Telegraph might not have been forthcoming had he not been the son of a Preston man. 🔊
← I felt that his behavior made me ridiculous in the eyes of the other man. 🔊
← What should you know of the feelings of a man like me? 🔊
← A dead man can't read the books that are written about him. 🔊
← "I am a man of business," he said, "and always I would put things through 'right now,' as they say in the States. 🔊
← 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. 🔊
← Now and again some poet or prosaist may have said to another, "What has become of that man Soames?" 🔊