← He, who had never looked strong or well, looked ghastly now—a shadow of the shade he had once been. 🔊
← "Though not an Englishman," he explained, "I know my London well, Mr. Soames. 🔊
← Well, what, then? What else had I come for? 🔊
← "And all of them, men and women alike, looking very well cared for? 🔊
← Well, he had gone straight to the catalogue, of course,—to the S volumes,—and had stood long before SN-SOF, unable to take this volume out of the shelf because his heart was beating so. 🔊
← Again he looked up his name, stared at the three little pasted slips he had known so well. 🔊
← I remember saying at last that if indeed I was destined to write about him, the supposed "stauri" had better have at least a happy ending. 🔊
← Better say nothing at all, I thought. 🔊
← Well informed in all things, the devil must have known that my friend would gain nothing by his visit to futurity. 🔊