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Excerpt: The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James.

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...ENN S TAT E ELE C T R O N IC CLAS SIC S SERIES PUBLICA TIO N The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univers... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...nt or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Cla... ...uld! For what do you take me, pray? Heaven help me, I’m not the Emperor of China! All I offer you is the chance of taking the common lot in a comforta... ...; it certainly isn’t the great- est. I came into the world in the Brooklyn navy-yard. My father was a high officer in the United States Navy, and had ... ... view of French life; and it’s a fact that I want very much to see the new Republic. Mr. Bantling doesn’t care much about the Republic, but he thinks ... ...to know what one had crossed that odious Atlantic for but to get away from republics. “Why, madam, sitting in the Champs Elysees, opposite to the Pala... ...ous youth, with what are called cultivated tastes—an acquaintance with old china, with good wine, with the bindings of books, with the Almanach de Got... ...er in amorous meditation a good deal as he might have thought of a Dresden-china shep- herdess. Miss Osmond, indeed, in the bloom of her juve- nility,...