← 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. 🔊
← You showed me some of your paintings, you know. 🔊
← I told Soames that for the honor of the human race he ought to make some show of resistance. 🔊
← "I had some reason, I know. I'll try to remember. 🔊
← At first, he said, he wasn't disappointed; he only thought there was some new arrangement. 🔊
← "And then," he droned, "I looked up the 'Dictionary of National Biography,' and some encyclopedias. 🔊
← And for years I did not set foot even in Soho Square, because on that same night it was there that I paced and loitered, long and long, with some such dull sense of hope as a man has in not straying far from the place where he has lost something. 🔊
← Now and again some poet or prosaist may have said to another, "What has become of that man Soames?" 🔊
← And I hope these words will meet the eye of some contemporary rival to Nupton and be the undoing of Nupton. 🔊
← I like to think that some time between 1992 and 1997 somebody will have looked up this memoir, and will have forced on the world his inevitable and startling conclusions. 🔊