← One of these rovers interested me because I was sure he wanted to catch Rothenstein's eye. 🔊
← "Nothing is bad for one," answered Soames. 🔊
← "Draw him? Him? How can one draw a man who doesn't exist?" 🔊
← I felt as one who is about to be examined viva voce on the very subject in which he is shakiest. 🔊
← Yet even now, if one doesn't try to make any sense at all of the poem, and reads it just for the sound, there is a certain grace of cadence. 🔊
← The Vingtième was but a small whitewashed room, leading out into the street at one end and into a kitchen at the other. 🔊
← Or, better still, if I could be projected now, at this moment, into that future, into that reading-room, just for this one afternoon! 🔊
← "You are pleased to sneer," said the devil, who had also risen, "but it is one thing to write about an impossible machine; it is a quite other thing to be a supernatural power." 🔊
← He gathered that there was still only one catalogue. 🔊
← After all, the name Max Beerbohm is not at all an uncommon one, and there must be several Enoch Soameses running around, or, rather, Enoch Soames is a name that might occur to any one writing a story. 🔊