← Nor is there a counterpoise in the thought that if he had had some measure of success he might have passed, like those others, out of my mind, to return only at the historian's beck. 🔊
← "If," he urged, "I went into a bookseller's and said simply, 'Have you got?' 🔊
← I suppose it is my capacity for faith, not poor Soames's work, that is weaker than it once was. 🔊
← But I did not take my failure as wholly incompatible with a meaning in Soames's mind. 🔊
← You imagine that a great artist's faith in himself and in the verdict of posterity is enough to keep him happy. 🔊
← Beerbohm's, too—very known to me. 🔊
← "I found myself glancing through Nupton's book," he resumed. 🔊
← but my poor friend did the devil's bidding, not mine; 🔊
← and now, with his master's eyes again fixed on him, he arose, he shuffled past me. 🔊
← 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; 🔊