← For his sake, poor fellow, I should be inclined to keep my pen out of the ink. 🔊
← If Rothenstein had not been there, I should have revered Soames. 🔊
← "Oh, of course I should have my name on the cover," Soames answered earnestly. 🔊
← but, "I prefer," Soames replied in his toneless voice, "to be interrupted," and I obeyed his gesture that I should sit down. 🔊
← "I should have thought evenness was just what was wrong with him. A deadly evenness. 🔊
← What should you know of the feelings of a man like me? 🔊
← "I'm awfully sorry for you, Soames, and I make all possible allowances; but what earthly right have you to insinuate that I should make 'copy,' as you call it, out of you?" 🔊
← "I thought I should find you waiting here to-night, so I took the trouble to copy out the passage. Read it." 🔊
← here, at the table, fixing on me a gaze that made me hot all over, the poor fellow whom—whom evidently—but no: whatever down-grade my character might take in coming years, I should never be such a brute as to— 🔊
← It is well that vanity should be chastened; and Enoch Soames's vanity was, I admit, above the average, and called for special treatment. 🔊