really

"Anything that you really"—and I was going to say "admire?" 🔊

"Diabolism? Oh, yes? Really?" said I, with that vague discomfort and that intense desire to be polite which one feels when a man speaks of his own religion. 🔊

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. 🔊

Had I known that he really and firmly believed in the greatness of what he as an artist had achieved, I might not have shunned him. 🔊

(I rather liked them, really.) 🔊

"Your own name? Really? Soames, I'm very glad." 🔊

They will have been awfully waiting to see whether he really would come. 🔊

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