← And I may as well get the thing done now. 🔊
← He flung back the wings of his cape with a gesture which, had not those wings been waterproof, might have seemed to hurl defiance at things in general. 🔊
← It was the sort of thing that in old days he would have said for effect; but it carried conviction now. 🔊
← "It's the only important thing I ever heard you say," he continued. 🔊
← You've gone on believing I'm above that sort of thing. 🔊
← "I am a man of business," he said, "and always I would put things through 'right now,' as they say in the States. 🔊
← The whole thing was a nightmare. 🔊
← "I see the whole thing," said Soames, quietly. 🔊
← "And you're so hopelessly not an artist that, so far from being able to imagine a thing and make it seem true, you're going to make even a true thing seem as if you'd made it up. 🔊