← The gangway between the two rows of tables at the Vingtième was hardly more than two feet wide (Rose and Berthe, in their ministrations, had always to edge past each other, quarreling in whispers as they did so), and any one at the table abreast of yours was virtually at yours. 🔊
← Parfaitement. Time—an illusion. Past and future—they are as ever present as the present, or at any rate only what you call 'just round the corner.' 🔊
← You wish to find yourself standing in that room, just past the swing-doors, this very minute, yes? 🔊
← But I wondered why—and now I guessed with a cold throb just why—he stared so past me. 🔊
← and now, with his master's eyes again fixed on him, he arose, he shuffled past me. 🔊
← and presently I blamed myself for letting the past override the present. 🔊