← I almost wondered that Mr. Soames did not, after this monosyllable, pass along. 🔊
← Was there, I wondered, any substance at all? 🔊
← I wondered who the "young woman" was and what she had made of it all. 🔊
← They made a queer contrast in that sunlit room, Soames sitting haggard in that hat and cape, which nowhere at any season had I seen him doff, and this other, this keenly vital man, at sight of whom I more than ever wondered whether he were a diamond merchant, a conjurer, or the head of a private detective agency. 🔊
← I wondered what train of thought poor Soames had been following. 🔊
← No wonder! Foodless he had gone into futurity, foodless he still was. 🔊
← But I wondered why—and now I guessed with a cold throb just why—he stared so past me. 🔊
← I remember pausing before a wide door-step and wondering if perchance it was on this very one that the young De Quincey lay ill and faint while poor Ann flew as fast as her feet would carry her to Oxford Street, the "stony-hearted stepmother" of them both, and came back bearing that "glass of port wine and spices" but for which he might, so he thought, actually have died. 🔊
← There was something rather ghastly to me in the general unconsciousness that Soames had existed, and more than once I caught myself wondering whether Nupton, that babe unborn, were going to be right in thinking him a figment of my brain. 🔊