← France had had only one poet—Villon; "and two thirds of Villon were sheer journalism." 🔊
← They seemed to fall into two classes: those who had little to say and those who had nothing. 🔊
← Nevertheless, I did, a day or two later, tentatively ask Harland if he knew anything of the work of a man called Enoch Soames. 🔊
← John Lane had published, by this time, two little books of mine, and they had had a pleasant little success of esteem. 🔊
← The proprietor and cook was a Frenchman, known to us as Monsieur Vingtième; the waiters were his two daughters, Rose and Berthe; and the food, according to faith, was good. 🔊
← Only the two nearest to the door, as I went in, were occupied. 🔊
← The gangway between the two rows of tables at the Vingtième was hardly more than two feet wide (Rose and Berthe, in their ministrations, had always to edge past each other, quarreling in whispers as they did so), and any one at the table abreast of yours was virtually at yours. 🔊
← Two, three centuries hence, perhaps—" 🔊
← Soames was wretchedly rising from his chair when, with a desperate, quick gesture, I swept together two dinner-knives that were on the table, and laid their blades across each other. 🔊