← Or, rather, how am I to hush up the horrid fact that he was ridiculous? 🔊
← Up cropped a rival hypothesis: suppose I was! 🔊
← His nose was predatory, and the points of his mustache, waxed up behind his nostrils, gave a fixity to his smile. 🔊
← He sat crouched forward, with his elbows squared on the table, and his head just above the level of his hands, staring up at the devil. 🔊
← A hurdy-gurdy began to play, abruptly drowning the noise of a quarrel between some Frenchmen farther up the street. 🔊
← "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. 🔊
← I stood staring all ways, up the street, across it, down it. 🔊