← I said mildly that I wasn't, either, and murmured that an artist who gave truly new and great things to the world had always to wait long for recognition. 🔊
← But ah! hadn't both John Lane and Aubrey Beardsley suggested that I should write an essay for the great new venture that was afoot—The Yellow Book? 🔊
← But at the private view of the New English Art Club, a few weeks later, I beheld a pastel portrait of "Enoch Soames, Esq." 🔊
← Twice again in the course of the month I went to the New English, and on both occasions Soames himself was on view there. 🔊
← What I wanted to say was, "Any artist who gives truly new and great things to the world has always to wait long for recognition"; but the flattery would not out: 🔊
← Almost I wished I had gone with Soames, not, indeed, to stay in the reading-room, but to sally forth for a brisk sight-seeing walk around a new London. 🔊
← At first, he said, he wasn't disappointed; he only thought there was some new arrangement. 🔊