← 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. 🔊
← But I did not take my failure as wholly incompatible with a meaning in Soames's mind. 🔊
← The news that Soames had an income did take the edge off solicitude. 🔊
← I was sure Soames didn't want my company; but I asked, as it would have seemed brutal not to, whether I might join him, and took the chair opposite to his. 🔊
← "I have been unable not to hear. Might I take a liberty? 🔊
← Well, he had gone straight to the catalogue, of course,—to the S volumes,—and had stood long before SN-SOF, unable to take this volume out of the shelf because his heart was beating so. 🔊
← "I thought I should find you waiting here to-night, so I took the trouble to copy out the passage. Read it." 🔊
← It iz a sumwot labud satire, but not without vallu az showing hou seriusli the yung men ov th aiteen-ninetiz took themselvz. 🔊
← 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— 🔊
← In his first visit Soames was a creature of flesh and blood, whereas the creatures among whom he was projected were but ghosts, I take it—solid, palpable, vocal, but unconscious and automatic ghosts, in a building that was itself an illusion. 🔊