← The dim man was now again approaching our table, and this time he made up his mind to pause in front of it. 🔊
← I thought our neighbor was amused at my failure to interest Soames, and so, as I could not explain to him that my insistence was merely charitable, I became silent. 🔊
← "It will be the more pleasant, our little deal," the devil went on, "because you are—I mistake not?—a diabolist." 🔊
← Berthe had come forth at the sound of our rising. 🔊
← Once or twice in the afternoon it had for an instant occurred to me that perhaps his journey was not to be fruitless, that perhaps we had all been wrong in our estimate of the works of Enoch Soames. 🔊
← That we had been horribly right was horribly clear from the look of him. 🔊
← and we had a rather heated argument, in the thick of which it suddenly seemed to me that Soames saw he was in the wrong: he had quite physically cowered. 🔊
← He was at our table in a stride. 🔊
← We don't wish to say that the whole thing was a swindle, a common swindle. 🔊