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...assics Series Publication Roderick Hudson by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ics Series Publication Roderick Hudson by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...s Rowland at the garden gate was giving his hostess Godspeed on her way to church, he came striding along the grassy margin of the road and out-whistl... ...ing along the grassy margin of the road and out-whistling the music of the church bells. It was one of those lovely days of August when you feel the c... ...and wisely of everything.” “Stay a bit!” cried Roderick; “you ‘re a better Catholic than the Pope. I shall be content if she judges fairly of me—of my... ... femi- nine) alluded to when they spoke of his delightful fresh- ness, and critics of harsher sensibilities (of the other sex) when they denounced his... ...are very artistic and yet you are very prosaic; you have what is called a ‘catholic’ taste and yet you are full of obstinate little prejudices and hab...

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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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...Excerpt: Volume I. Preface: Nothing is more easy than to state the subject of ?The Ambassadors,? which first appeared in twelve numbers of The North American Review (1903) and was published as a whole the same year. The situation involved is gathered up betimes, that is in the second cha...

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...The Aspern Papers by Henry James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Aspern Paper... ...Papers by Henry James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Aspern Papers by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...SICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Aspern Papers 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... ...r rejoicing in the return of the sea- son of strong effects. The wonderful church, with its low domes and bristling embroideries, the mystery of its m... ...ntinued, addressing herself to me. “What have they done with the funny old church? I hope it hasn’t tumbled down. let her look at the shops; she may t... ...h a rough way of treading it down.” “Oh, I like the past, but I don’t like critics,” the old woman declared with her fine tranquility. “Neither do I, ... ...urano. It appeared from these circumstances that the Misses Bordereau were Catholics, a discovery I had never made, as the old woman could not go to c...