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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. A narrow grave-yard in the heart of a bustling, indifferent city, seen from the windows of a gloomylooking inn, is at no time an object of enlivening suggestion; and the spectacle is not at its best when the mouldy tombstones and funereal umbrage h...

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...opeans by Henry James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Europeans by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...ns by Henry James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Europeans by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univers... ...CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Europeans by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ed a moment, gave a pinch to her waist with her two hands, or raised these members— they were very plump and pretty—to the multifold braids 4 The Eur... ...o a large, cheerful street, in which, evidently, among the more prosperous members of the bourgeoisie, a great deal of pedestrianism went forward. Our... ...ew’s advice. “Have you ever entertained the idea of settling in the United States?” he asked one morning, while Felix bril- liantly plied his brush. “... ...nal mood. She had, however, never been, during her residence in the United States, what is called a regular attendant at divine service; and on this p...

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...y, but either nine or eleven. She didn?t tell me to say she was glad to see you, because she doesn?t know whether she is or not, and she wouldn?t for the world expose herself to telling a fib. She is very honest, is Olive Chancellor; she is full of rectitude. Nobody tells fibs in Boston; I don?t know what to make of them all. Well, I am very glad to see you, at any rate.? ...

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...Table of Contents: Book First 3 -- Chapter 1, 3 -- Chapter 2, 8 -- Chapter 3, 12 -- Chapter 4, 20 -- Chapter 5, 26 -- Chapter 6, 30 -- Chapter 7, 38 -- Chapter 8, 45 -- Chapter 9, 51 -- Chapter 10, 55 -- Chapter 11, 62 -- Chapter 1...

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...24 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 ii The Bostonians Chapter 25 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... ...ee you, because she doesn’t know whether she is or not, and she wouldn’t for the world expose herself to telling a fib. She is very honest, is Olive Ch... ...erself to telling a fib. She is very honest, is Olive Chancellor; she is full of rectitude. Nobody tells fibs in Boston; I don’t know what to make of th... ...e apartment, had lost himself in its pages. He threw it down at the approach of Mrs. Luna, laughed, shook hands with her, and said in answer to her la... ...r smouldering fire, might have indicated that he was to be a great Ameri can statesman; or, on the other hand, they might simply have proved that he c... ... back in bondage. She had suffered in the same way by the relaxation of many European despotisms, for in former years much of the romance of her life ... ...guests presently made their way, and where they were joined by various other members of the good lady’s circle. Indeed, it completed Miss Birdseye her... ...stoc racy. Nothing could be weaker, she knew very well, than (in the United States) to apply that term too literally; nevertheless, it would represen... ... candour of allusion to her neighbour was probably not habitual to her, as a member of society in which the casual expression of strong opinion genera...

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...Excerpt: CHAPTER 1; Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. There are circumstances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not--some people of course never do--the situation is in itself delightful. Those that I have in m...

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...U nder certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. There are circ... ...wn as afternoon tea. There are circum stances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not—some people of course never do—the situation is in itse... ...as afternoon tea. There are circum stances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not—some people of course never do—the situation is in itself ... ... history offered an admirable setting to an innocent pastime. The implements of the little feast had been disposed upon the lawn of an old English cou... ...you had only to come and see me.” “There? Where do you mean?” “In the United States: in New York and Albany and other American places.” “I’ve been the... ...Mrs. Keyes, the second of the group, was the wife of an officer of the United States Engineers, and as our history is not further concerned with her it... ...satisfy it. She ought to have been a partisan of her father, for she was the member of his trio who most “made up” to him for the disagreeables he did... ...ery well, had not the recollection of having been in New York a success ful member of the choregraphic circle; her sister Edith was, as every one sai... ...int of where you see your duty.” 32 Portrait of a Lady “In showing her four European countries—I shall leave her the choice of two of them—and in giv...

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...f View by Henry James A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Point of View by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...Henry James A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Point of View by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Universit... ...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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...end, opposite to me, is beginning on his ninth. He is an Honourable, and a Member of Parliament; he has writ- ten, during the voyage, about a hundred ... ...y ignorance incredible. “Now, how would it be in one of your South-Western States?”—that’s his favourite way of opening conversation. Fancy me giving ... ...y of opening conversation. Fancy me giving an account of the South-Western States! I tell him he had better ask mamma—a little to tease that lady, who... ...rom a mother to a mother, it would be affectation not to touch upon. I re- member the just satisfaction with which you announced to me the betrothal o... ...uses are extremely good, and they look so extraordinarily fresh and clean. European interiors, in comparison, seem musty and gritty. We have a great d...

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...urepas By Henry James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Pension Beaurepas by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ... SERIES PUBLICATION The Pension Beaurepas by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...king, in a contemplative manner, at the sunshine. “Are you from the United States, sir?” he presently de- manded, turning his head again. “Yes, sir,” ... ...sumed,” he said, “that you were American or En- glish. I’m from the United States myself; from New York 9 Henry James city. Many of our people here?”... ...Miss Ruck gave a little laugh. “I was saying that you wanted to pass for a European.” “Yes, I want to pass for a Dalmatian.” Miss Ruck looked at me a ... ...ying a little.” “Ah, I am glad to hear that. You are gathering up a little European culture; that’s what we lack, you know, at home. No individual can... ... converse, and she apparently did me the honour to believe that of all the members of the Pen- sion Beaurepas I had the most cultivated understanding....

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...Future by Henry James A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Madonna of the Future by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvan... ...nry James A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Madonna of the Future by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...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... ... for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...fec- tion. An American, to excel, has just ten times as much to learn as a European. We lack the deeper sense. We have neither taste, nor tact, nor po... ...ver. The very heat of his devotion was a sign of conversion; those born to European opportunity manage better to reconcile enthusiasm with comfort. He... ...merican lady whose drawing-room had long formed an attractive place of re- union for the foreign residents. She lived on a fourth floor, and she was n... ...hael, at the very least, had been born among men, and the poor dear United States were to have the credit of him. Hadn’t he the very hair of Raphael f... ...and that fine piece of priestly needlework, she looked like some pious lay-member of a sisterhood, living by special permission outside her convent wa...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. On a brilliant day in May, in the year 1868, a gentle man was reclining at his ease on the great circular divan which at that period occupied the centre of the Salon Carre, in the Museum of the Louvre. This commodious ottoman has since been removed, to th...

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...erican by Henry James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The American by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ... CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The American by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ffing, in his dealings with men, he never found himself on a sofa beside a member of the softer sex with- out feeling extremely serious. He was not sh... ...heir native country, and Newman was at a loss to understand why the United States were not good enough for Mr. Tristram. He had never been a very cons... ... in 50 The American a portfolio and hand them round to the company. I re- member, once, a lady thought I was offering them for sale, and I took it ve... ...y deeper than where any definition of mine can reach it. He mistrusted the European temperament, he suffered from the European climate, he hated the E... ...ntre a hundred long stories; he explained to her, in talking of the United States, the working of various local institutions and mercantile cus- toms....