← Harland was the most joyous of men and most generous of critics, and he hated to talk of anything about which he couldn't be enthusiastic. 🔊
← Wherever congregated the jeunes feroces of the arts, in whatever Soho restaurant they had just discovered, in whatever music-hall they were most frequently, there was Soames in the midst of them, or, rather, on the fringe of them, a dim, but inevitable, figure. 🔊
← I had been out most of the morning and, as it was too late to reach home in time for luncheon, I sought the Vingtième. 🔊
← I spent most of the long evening in renewed appeals to Soames to come away and seek refuge somewhere. 🔊
← The sheen of his tilted hat and of his shirt-front, the repeated twists he was giving to his mustache, and most of all the magnificence of his sneer, gave token that he was there only to be foiled. 🔊