...ENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Ambassadors by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable ... ...e file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Ambassadors by Henry James, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim M... ...Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Henry James The Ambassadors by Henry James New York Edition (1909). Volume I Pref... ...mmediately to the point was the ques- tion of that supplement of situation logically involved in our gentleman’s impulse to deliver himself in the Par... ...ke the gentlemen who audit ledgers, he must keep his head at any price. In consequence of all which, for the interest of the matter, I might seem here... ...g for him, would have been then, on behalf of my man of imagination, to be logically and, as the artless craft of 9 Henry James comedy has it, “led u... ...ibi- tion was to be a muddle; if I could only by implication and a show of consequence make other persons tell each other about him, I could at least ... ..., in essence, Strether’s friend. She is the reader’s friend much rather—in consequence 17 Henry James of dispositions that make him so eminently requ... ... complete and functional scene, treat- ing all the submitted matter, as by logical start, logical turn, and logical finish) is discriminated preparati...

...The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James A PENN 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 A PENN S TAT E ELE C T R O N IC CLAS SIC S SERIES PUBLICA TIO N The ... ... 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 University. This Portable ... ...as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim M... ...confess, in the curios- ity of analysing the structure. By what process of logical accretion was this slight “personality,” the mere slim shade of an ... ...y father, after my mother’s death, which took place when I was a child. In consequence of it we never expected to see you.” “Ah, but I don’t embrace a... ...ge bedroomy combs at the temples and that she was the widow of some one of consequence. The little girl had been offered the opportunity of laying a f... ...a while unhonoured. If he had determined to persecute her he must take the consequences; foremost among which was his being left to perceive how littl... ...ould tell you.” “On the contrary,” said Mrs. Touchett, who rarely missed a logical point; “if I remembered your telling me would be quite superfluous....

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