... An In... ...ndred men sitting on divans along a great marble-paved corridor, with their legs stretched out, together with several dozen more standing in a queue, ... ...came out to speak to them more instantly than they could have expected; he had evidently jumped up from his work. He was a tall, lean personage and wa... ...nk it’s cooler,” and he led the way into another room, where there were law books and papers, and windows wide open beneath striped awning. Just oppos... ... very high in the air. “I say it’s cooler,” pursued their host, “but everything is rela- tive. How do you stand the heat?” “I can’t say we like it,” s... ...ing to business—” said Mr. Westgate. “Oh, you see I’m by way of being a barrister,” Percy Beaumont answered. “I know some people that think of bringin... ... Also in those of her sister, who is staying with her. She is very fond of Englishmen. She thinks there is nothing like them.” “Mrs. Westgate or—a— he... ...s and flowering hedgerows, as she looked at them from the window of the train; with the spires of the rural churches peeping above the rook-haunted tr... ...ill understand after Lord Lambeth has come,” said Mrs. Westgate with a little laugh. The two ladies had arranged that on this afternoon Willie Woodley...

...A Little Tour In France by Henry James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION A Little Tour in... ...solitary, and much mutilated; but it nestles with a kind of wasted friend- liness beneath the big walls of the cathedral. Its lower arcades have been ... ...f the old guard-room, which is now a stable; and there are other vague out-lines and inconsequent lumps, which I have forgotten. You need all your ima... ...over the neighboring potagers, talks a good deal about the gardens and the park. The place looks mean and flat; and as you drive away you scarcely kno... ...n exiled pretender. I drove along a straight avenue, through a disfeatured park,—the park of Chambord has twenty- one miles of circumference,—a very s... ...stle; what I owe to exactitude compels me to add that it is crossed by the railway-line. The place is so arranged, however, that the chateau need know... ... the buffet, and to observe the proceedings of a family who had entered my railway carriage at Tours and had conversed unreserv- edly, for my benefit,... ...inded me of Balzac’s “illustre Gaudissart;” and indeed, in the course of a month’s jour- ney through a large part of France, I heard so little desul- ... ...en herself in a small but loyal house at Nantes, where, at the end of five months of seclusion, she was betrayed, for gold, to the austere M. Guizot, ...

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...A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The American by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable ... ...f it stuck to me; but I have forgotten!” “How much French can I learn in a month?” “What does he say?” asked Mademoiselle Noemie. M. Nioche explained.... ...ith neither guide-book nor op- era-glass. He carried a white sun-umbrella, lined with blue silk, and he strolled in front of the Paul Veronese, vaguel... ...room, and, with an outstretched hand, arrested the gentleman with the blue-lined umbrella. The latter stared, but put out his hand at a venture. He wa... ...to take it easily. I feel deliciously lazy, and I should like to spend six months as I am now, sitting under a tree and listening to a band. There’s o... ...at a paradise she finds it. She walks about in it as if it were a blooming park, a Garden of Eden; and when she sees ‘This is genteel, ’ or ‘This is i... ...nd transport them to a distance, to have special convey- ances, to charter railway-carriages and steamboats, har- monized with his relish for bold pro... ...merican experience were certain transcendent sagacities in the handling of railway stock. And then his zeal was quick- ened by his personal kindness f... ...just beyond there,” said the landlord, and pointed to the tree-tops of the park, above the opposite houses. Newman followed the first cross-road to th...

...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 ... ...trait 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 Ame... ... like “The American,” it had been designed for publication in The Atlantic Monthly, where it began to appear in 1880. It differed from its two predece... ...f an interest, I would leave no pretext for saying that anything is out of line, scale or perspective. I would build large—in fine embossed vaults and... ...h laundress (Mrs. Touchett was very particular about the appearance of her linen) was not a mistress of her art. At fixed intervals she paid a visit t... ... latticed and sanded, past patches of ancient common and glimpses of empty parks, between hedgerows made thick by mid- summer. When they reached home ... ...h he had spent a good deal of time in her society. They strolled about the park together and sat under the trees, and in the afternoon, when it was de... ... the Almanach de Gotha, with the best shops, the best hotels, the hours of railway- trains. He could order a dinner almost as well as Mr. Luce, and it... ... tracted friendships, in travelling, with great freedom, and had formed in railway-carriages several that were among her most valued ties. Ralph was m...

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