← He was twenty-one years old. 🔊
← "A hundred years hence!" he murmured, as in a trance. 🔊
← "It's what you said to me three years ago, when Fungoids was published." 🔊
← A hundred years hence! Think of it! 🔊
← But of a hundred years hence, yes? 🔊
← "A hundred years hence, as now," he smiled, "no smoking allowed in the reading-room. You would better therefore—" 🔊
← Strange that the words I here copy out for you were copied out for me by poor Soames just eighty-two years hence! 🔊
← here, at the table, fixing on me a gaze that made me hot all over, the poor fellow whom—whom evidently—but no: whatever down-grade my character might take in coming years, I should never be such a brute as to— 🔊
← And for years I did not set foot even in Soho Square, because on that same night it was there that I paced and loitered, long and long, with some such dull sense of hope as a man has in not straying far from the place where he has lost something. 🔊