← Or, rather, how am I to hush up the horrid fact that he was ridiculous? 🔊
← It didn't occur to anybody that he or his Catholic diabolism mattered. 🔊
← He, who had never looked strong or well, looked ghastly now—a shadow of the shade he had once been. 🔊
← He seemed not to hear me or even to see me. 🔊
← A bargain was a bargain, and I was the last man to aid or abet any one in wriggling out of a reasonable obligation. 🔊
← 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. 🔊
← Soames was only not sure whether the men and women were hairless or shorn. 🔊
← Dazed, I turned back at length into the little room, and I suppose I paid Berthe or Rose for my dinner and luncheon and for Soames's; 🔊
← Now and again some poet or prosaist may have said to another, "What has become of that man Soames?" 🔊