CHAPTER I During a portion of the first half of the present century, and more particularly during the latter part of it, there flourished and practised in the city of New York a physician who enjoyed perhaps an exceptional share of the consideration which, in the United States, has always been bestowed upon distinguished members
The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve in an old house, a strange tale should essentially be, I remember no comment uttered till somebody happened to say that it was the only case he had met in which such a visitation had fallen on a child.
This etext was scanned by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk, from the 1893 Macmillan and Co. edition. Proofing was by Nina Hall, Mohua Sen, Bridie, Francine Smith and David. The Real Thing by Henry James CHAPTER I. When the porter’s wife (she used to answer the house-bell), announced “A gentleman–with a lady, sir,” I had, as
Scanned and proofed by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk The Pupil CHAPTER I The poor young man hesitated and procrastinated: it cost him such an effort to broach the subject of terms, to speak of money to a person who spoke only of feelings and, as it were, of the aristocracy. Yet he was unwilling to
Etext created by Eve Sobol, South Bend, Indiana, USA The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James VOLUME II CHAPTER XXVIII On the morrow, in the evening, Lord Warburton went again to see his friends at their hotel, and at this establishment he learned that they had gone to the opera. He drove to the
Etext created by Eve Sobol, South Bend, Indiana, USA The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James VOLUME I PREFACE “The Portrait of a Lady” was, like “Roderick Hudson,” begun in Florence, during three months spent there in the spring of 1879. Like “Roderick” and like “The American,” it had been designed for publication in
This etext was scanned by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk, from the 1886 Macmillan and Co. edition. Proofing was by Christine Merriman, Judith Lando-Deurvorst and Twister Dragon THE POINT OF VIEW by Henry James I. FROM MISS AURORA CHURCH, AT SEA, TO MISS WHITESIDE, IN PARIS. . . . My dear child, the bromide of sodium
This etext was scanned by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk from the 1886 Macmillan and Co. edition. Proofing was by Emma Hair, Francine Smith and Matthew Garrish. The Pension Beaurepas by Henry James CHAPTER I. I was not rich–on the contrary; and I had been told the Pension Beaurepas was cheap. I had, moreover, been told
This etext was prepared by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk from the 1922 Macmillan and Co. edition. Proofing by Jonesey and Richard Carpenter THE PATAGONIA by Henry James CHAPTER I The houses were dark in the August night and the perspective of Beacon Street, with its double chain of lamps, was a foreshortened desert. The club
This etext was scanned by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk from the 1922 Macmillan and Co. edition. Proofed by Elizabeth Manzelli and Vanessa Mosher. The Marriages by Henry James CHAPTER I “Won’t you stay a little longer?” the hostess asked while she held the girl’s hand and smiled. “It’s too early for every one to go–
This etext was prepared by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk from the 1887 Macmillan and Co. edition. Proofing was by Jennifer Austin. THE MADONNA OF THE FUTURE by Henry James We had been talking about the masters who had achieved but a single masterpiece–the artists and poets who but once in their lives had known the
The Lesson of the Master by Henry James Scanned and proofed by David Price ccx074@coventry.ac.uk The Lesson of the Master He had been told the ladies were at church, but this was corrected by what he saw from the top of the steps – they descended from a great height in two arms, with a
