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Roderick Hudson

By: Henry James

...ward to let fly his stone, he looks like a beautiful runner at the Olympic games. After that I shall skip to the New Testament. I mean to make a Chris... ...w Testament. I mean to make a Christ.” “You ‘ll put nothing of the Olympic games into him, I hope,” said Gloriani. “Oh, I shall make him very differen... ... Rowland frowned. “For heaven’s sake,” he said, “don’t play such dangerous games with your facility. If you have got facility, revere it, respect it, ... ...re not frequent, and Rowland more than once ventured to introduce her to a gallery or a church. These expeditions were not so blissful, to his sense, ... ...d hurried her to the house, where, as soon as she stepped into the covered gallery, Mrs. Hudson fell upon her with frantic lamentations. “Did you see ... ...pane, he saw a star, and he immedi- ately went downstairs and out into the gallery. The rain had ceased, the cloud-masses were dissevered here and the...

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