← He flung back the wings of his cape with a gesture which, had not those wings been waterproof, might have seemed to hurl defiance at things in general. 🔊
← Not to buy a book of which I had met the author face to face would have been for me in those days an impossible act of self-denial. 🔊
← Going into the aforesaid domino-room, I had passed a table at which sat a pale man with an open book before him. 🔊
← I felt as one who is about to be examined viva voce on the very subject in which he is shakiest. 🔊
← He had a sort of weak doggedness which I could not but admire. 🔊
← He said I was trying to get credit for a kind heart which I didn't possess; and perhaps this was so. 🔊
← "And a treacherous ass," he strangely added, tossing across to me a crumpled bit of paper which he had been holding in his hand. 🔊
← I found that by murmuring the words aloud (a device which I commend to my reader) I was able to master them little by little. 🔊
← 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. 🔊
← You realize that the reading-room into which Soames was projected by the devil was in all respects precisely as it will be on the afternoon of June 3, 1997. 🔊