← It was Rothenstein that took me to see, in Cambridge Street, Pimlico, a young man whose drawings were already famous among the few—Aubrey Beardsley by name. 🔊
← I have rooms in Dyott Street." 🔊
← I don't think it lived long enough to justify its name; but at that time there it still was, in Greek Street, a few doors from Soho Square, and almost opposite to that house where, in the first years of the century, a little girl, and with her a boy named De Quincey, made nightly encampment in darkness and hunger among dust and rats and old legal parchments. 🔊
← The Vingtième was but a small whitewashed room, leading out into the street at one end and into a kitchen at the other. 🔊
← A hurdy-gurdy began to play, abruptly drowning the noise of a quarrel between some Frenchmen farther up the street. 🔊
← I stood staring all ways, up the street, across it, down it. 🔊
← Ever since that night I have avoided Greek Street altogether. 🔊
← I remember pausing before a wide door-step and wondering if perchance it was on this very one that the young De Quincey lay ill and faint while poor Ann flew as fast as her feet would carry her to Oxford Street, the "stony-hearted stepmother" of them both, and came back bearing that "glass of port wine and spices" but for which he might, so he thought, actually have died. 🔊
← As for his landlady in Dyott Street, no doubt he had paid her weekly, and what possessions he may have had in his rooms were enough to save her from fretting. 🔊
← But—well, one is so used to nodding and smiling in the street to anybody whom one knows that the action becomes almost independent of oneself; 🔊