← "And I rather want," he added, looking hard at Rothenstein, "to have a drawing of myself as frontispiece." 🔊
← His moroseness might have alienated me if I had regarded myself as a nobody. 🔊
← In vain did I attune myself to his gloom. 🔊
← I'd sell myself body and soul to the devil for that! 🔊
← With an effort I controlled myself and rose from my chair. 🔊
← He did not eat, and I myself ate hardly at all. 🔊
← and presently I blamed myself for letting the past override the present. 🔊
← And for myself, too, I began to be troubled. 🔊
← 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. 🔊
← At thought of Enoch Soames and the myriads of other sufferers eternally in this brute's dominion, a great cold wrath filled me, and I drew myself up to my full height. 🔊