← He was an odd-looking person; but in the nineties odd apparitions were more frequent, I think, than they are now. 🔊
← "It's more a matter of trusting and encouraging." 🔊
← I sadly suspect that Soames could not have made more of it than she. 🔊
← Anybody who knew him would have recognized the portrait at a glance, but nobody who didn't know him would have recognized the portrait from its bystander: it "existed" so much more than he; it was bound to. 🔊
← "It will be the more pleasant, our little deal," the devil went on, "because you are—I mistake not?—a diabolist." 🔊
← And he added, with a touch of his old manner, but with more dignity than I had ever known in him, "Parlons d'autre chose." 🔊
← "But," I urged more hopefully than I felt, "an ending that can be avoided isn’t inevitable." 🔊
← There was something rather ghastly to me in the general unconsciousness that Soames had existed, and more than once I caught myself wondering whether Nupton, that babe unborn, were going to be right in thinking him a figment of my brain. 🔊
← The more I think of it, the more detestable the devil seems to me. 🔊