← "Yes, I do," he replied after a moment, with pride rather than effusion—pride in a retentive memory. 🔊
← Or, better still, if I could be projected now, at this moment, into that future, into that reading-room, just for this one afternoon! 🔊
← He waved her away with his cigar, and in another moment had seated himself beside me, commanding a full view of Soames. 🔊
← For a few moments the devil let his hand rest where it lay, gazing at me out of the corners of his eyes, vulgarly triumphant. 🔊
← 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 Rose or Berthe appeared for a moment. 🔊