← I liked Rothenstein not less than I feared him; 🔊
← 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." 🔊
← I suppose it is my capacity for faith, not poor Soames's work, that is weaker than it once was. 🔊
← I sadly suspect that Soames could not have made more of it than she. 🔊
← Anybody who knew him would have recognized the portrait at a glance, but nobody who didn't know him would have recognized the portrait from its bystander: it "existed" so much more than he; it was bound to. 🔊
← I hoped I looked less vulgar than he in contrast with Soames. 🔊
← Look here Soames, you know me better than to suppose that I— 🔊
← And he added, with a touch of his old manner, but with more dignity than I had ever known in him, "Parlons d'autre chose." 🔊
← There was something rather ghastly to me in the general unconsciousness that Soames had existed, and more than once I caught myself wondering whether Nupton, that babe unborn, were going to be right in thinking him a figment of my brain. 🔊