← The dim man was now again approaching our table, and this time he made up his mind to pause in front of it. 🔊
← I did not, when the time came, quite see that. 🔊
← But at the time of their publication I had a vague suspicion that they might be. 🔊
← It was true, what I'd time and again been told: He was old—old. 🔊
← But I did, at the time of its publication, say to Rothenstein that I thought poor old Soames was really a rather tragic figure, and that I believed he would literally die for want of recognition. 🔊
← I had been out most of the morning and, as it was too late to reach home in time for luncheon, I sought the Vingtième. 🔊
← "Perhaps it's only that you—didn't leave enough time. 🔊
← "I hadn't time to look at them very closely," he explained. 🔊
← Of him I have caught sight several times, here and there, since that day at the Vingtième. 🔊