← The dim man was now again approaching our table, and this time he made up his mind to pause in front of it. 🔊
← I used to keep it lying carelessly on the table in my room, and whenever a friend took it up and asked what it was about, I would say: "Oh, it's rather a remarkable book. 🔊
← Going into the aforesaid domino-room, I had passed a table at which sat a pale man with an open book before him. 🔊
← But here he was interrupted by a sudden loud crack of the chair at the next table. 🔊
← He sat crouched forward, with his elbows squared on the table, and his head just above the level of his hands, staring up at the devil. 🔊
← The devil had made as though to stretch forth his hand across the table, but he paused in his gesture. 🔊
← "Can't you"—but the devil had now stretched forth his hand across the table. 🔊
← Soames sat crouched forward against the table exactly as when last I had seen him. 🔊
← 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— 🔊