If only she had been there--it was _monstrous_ that she wasn't there!--he would just have thrown the question across the room, and got an answer.

Her verbal memory was astonishing--much better than his.
He must, of course, get up and look out the reference for himself.
And the same with others.

In an hour's time he had accomplished scarcely anything, and a settled gloom descended upon him.

That was the worst of accustoming yourself to crutches and helps.

When they were unscrupulously and unjustly taken away, a man was worse off than if he had never had them.
The evening post came in.