← And thus the omission found by me was an all the deadlier record of poor Soames's failure to impress himself on his decade. 🔊
← For his sake, poor fellow, I should be inclined to keep my pen out of the ink. 🔊
← I suppose it is my capacity for faith, not poor Soames's work, that is weaker than it once was. 🔊
← Soames was an artist, in so far as he was anything, poor fellow! 🔊
← But I did, at the time of its publication, say to Rothenstein that I thought poor old Soames was really a rather tragic figure, and that I believed he would literally die for want of recognition. 🔊
← I wondered what train of thought poor Soames had been following. 🔊
← The poor fellow pressed his hands to his forehead. 🔊
← Strange that the words I here copy out for you were copied out for me by poor Soames just eighty-two years hence! 🔊