← No one is a better judge of literature than Rothenstein; but it wouldn't have done to tell him so in those days, and I knew that I must form an unaided judgment of "Negations." 🔊
← "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. 🔊
← Then I look'd him in the eyes And I laugh'd full shrill at the lie he told And the gnawing fear he would fain disguise. 🔊
← It was true, what I'd time and again been told: He was old—old. 🔊
← His publisher had told him that three had been sold. 🔊
← I had told them I would not order any dinner till Mr. Soames came. 🔊
← It was maddening to think that he, who had so much to tell, might tell nothing. 🔊
← "How was it all," I asked, "yonder? Come, tell me your adventures!" 🔊