← "And I came to your studio once." 🔊
← "You do? I've only been there once. 🔊
← I suppose it is my capacity for faith, not poor Soames's work, that is weaker than it once was. 🔊
← He, who had never looked strong or well, looked ghastly now—a shadow of the shade he had once been. 🔊
← Once or twice in the afternoon it had for an instant occurred to me that perhaps his journey was not to be fruitless, that perhaps we had all been wrong in our estimate of the works of Enoch Soames. 🔊
← 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. 🔊