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Excerpt: The Wings of the Dove by Henry James.

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...The Lesson of the Master by Henry James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Lesson... ...The Lesson of the Master by Henry James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Lesson of th... ... STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Lesson of the Master by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por... ... ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Lesson of the Master by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable ... ...hat inspires.” “Oh I meant being at home again—being back in Piccadilly.” “My daughter likes Piccadilly—that’s the main thing. She’s very fond of art ... ...ng,” the gentleman who had first spoken de- clared to Mrs. St. George. “At my bidding?” “Didn’t you make him go to church?” “I never made him do anyth... ...casion. His superficial sense was that their owner might have passed for a lucky stockbro- ker—a gentleman driving eastward every morning from a sanit... ...bove him but moonless blackness, a bad lamp or two and a few far- away dim stars. To these last faint features he raised his eyes; he had been saying ...

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Excerpt: Roderick Hudson by Henry James.

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...shed acquaintance with ?The Golden Bowl? what perhaps most stands out for me is the still marked inveteracy of a certain indirect and oblique view of my presented action; unless indeed I make up my mind to call this mode of treatment, on the contrary, any superficial appearance notwithstanding, the very straightest and closest possible. I have already betrayed, as an accep...

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...Excerpt: I had taken Mrs. Prest into my confidence; in truth without her I should have made but little advance, for the fruitful idea in the whole business dropped from her friendly lips. It was she who invented the short cut, who severed the Gordian knot. It is...

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...y James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Confidence by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por... ...s A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Confidence by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable ... ...or the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Confidence by Henry James, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim M... ... she seemed absorbed in the view. “Is she posing—is she attitudinizing for my benefit?” Longueville asked of himself. And then it seemed to him that t... ...e of fine landscape. “But posing or not,” he went on, “I will put her into my sketch. She has simply put herself in. It will give it a human interest.... ... the shuffle of coin and the calculation of chance; while the faint summer stars, twinkling above the vague black hills and woods, looked down at the ... ...ry great,” Bernard went on, look- ing up at the dusky hills and the summer stars, seen through a sort of mist of music and talk, and of powdery light ... ... not the time to run away—it ‘s the time to keep your rooms, if you ‘re so lucky as to have any. The races begin next week and there ‘ll be a tremendo... ...ites about eighty a day; his correspondents must be strong people! It ‘s a lucky thing for me that I am mar- ried to Gordon; if I were not he might wr...