← His publisher had told him that three had been sold. 🔊
← I learned afterward that he was the son of an unsuccessful and deceased bookseller in Preston, but had inherited an annuity of three hundred pounds from a married aunt, and had no surviving relatives of any kind. 🔊
← "It's what you said to me three years ago, when Fungoids was published." 🔊
← Two, three centuries hence, perhaps—" 🔊
← Again he looked up his name, stared at the three little pasted slips he had known so well. 🔊
← Soames repeated those last three words in a tone of intense scorn. 🔊