← John Lane had published, by this time, two little books of mine, and they had had a pleasant little success of esteem. 🔊
← "It will be the more pleasant, our little deal," the devil went on, "because you are—I mistake not?—a diabolist." 🔊
← "I am sorry," he sneered witheringly, "to break up your pleasant party, but—" 🔊