All she now began by saying say to him nevertheless was that , having chanced to catch catch his enquiry enquiry , she was moved to ask ask , by his leave , if it were possibly a question of Mr. Waymarsh of Milrose Connecticut -- Mr. Waymarsh the American lawyer .

From the corner of the divan of Persian saddle-bags on which he was lying , smoking smoke , as was his custom , innumerable cigarettes , Lord Henry Wotton could just catch catch the gleam of the honey-sweet and honey-coloured blossoms of a laburnum , whose tremulous branches seemed hardly able to bear the burden of a beauty so flamelike as theirs ; and now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted flit across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window , producing a kind of momentary Japanese effect effect , and making him think think of those pallid , jade-faced painters of Tokyo who , through the medium of an art that is necessarily immobile , seek to convey the sense of swiftness and motion .