← Rothenstein admitted that this was a capital idea, and mentioned that he was going into the country and would be there for some time. 🔊
← 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. 🔊
← I used to keep it lying carelessly on the table in my room, and whenever a friend took it up and asked what it was about, I would say: "Oh, it's rather a remarkable book. 🔊
← I looked out for what the metropolitan reviewers would have to say. 🔊
← "I am a man of business," he said, "and always I would put things through 'right now,' as they say in the States. 🔊
← I explained to her that Mr. Soames had been called away, and that both he and I would be dining here. 🔊
← I vowed I would not look away from it again. 🔊
← He'd never think of looking for you in Calais." 🔊
← They would think I was a lunatic. 🔊
← You wouldn't say so if you had ever seen him, and I assure you that in no period would Soames be anything but dim. 🔊