← "Why were you so determined not to draw him?" I asked. 🔊
← "No. I found a title at last. But I sha'n't tell you what it is," as though I had been so impertinent as to inquire. 🔊
← I had hoped that when next I met the poet I could congratulate him on having made a stir, for I fancied he was not so sure of his intrinsic greatness as he seemed. 🔊
← So I dropped the subject of Soames. 🔊
← He said I was trying to get credit for a kind heart which I didn't possess; and perhaps this was so. 🔊
← I hope so, for I never went to the Vingtième again. 🔊
← And I have reason for believing that this will be so. 🔊
← You wouldn't say so if you had ever seen him, and I assure you that in no period would Soames be anything but dim. 🔊