The Lesson of the Master by Henry James He had been told the ladies were at church, but this was c...
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humbug!" St. George added in a tone that confirmed our young man's ease. "Certainly I'll break it ...
the gentleman who had first spoken declared to Mrs. St. George. "At my bidding?" "Didn't you make ...
with any quickened pulsation of his own vanity. It was responsive admiration of the life she embodi...
completely personal act? It was so logical, that is, that one might have TAKEN it for personal; yet...
be a great disgrace if you don't." "It's very interesting to hear you speak of yourself; but I don'...
lose itself in the vague darkness to which the thin admitted dawn, glimmering archwise over the who...
The Figure in the Carpet by Henry James I HAD done a few things and earned a few pence - I had per...
The Jolly Corner by Henry James CHAPTER I "Every one asks me what I 'think' of everything," said ...
dejection to bed; but in the passage I encountered Mr. Vereker, who had been up once more to change...
This wasn't a challenge - it was fatherly advice. If I had had one of his books at hand I'd have re...
you see what it has made of me." She just waited, smiling at him. "You see what it has made of ME."...
down, as Miss Erme would have said, I was uneasy, I was expectant. At the core of my disconcerted s...
shades and the parts at the back. But if he sometimes, on his rounds, was glad of his optical reach...
only obscured it - there were to be no particulars till he should have submitted his conception to ...