Densher really quite wondered if Aunt Maud knew how far Kate's devotion went.
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@thatiliazdguy.bsky.socialDensher really quite wondered if Aunt Maud knew how far Kate's devotion went.
@thatiliazdguy.bsky.socialIf she saw his intention in it she yet blinked neither with doubt nor with acceptance; she only said imperturbably: "Yes, she'll herself do anything for her friend; so that she but preaches what she practises."
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@briankhenry.bsky.social“She was a very vulgar woman; that was the way people talked, he supposed, at San Diego.” – Henry James, The Siege of London #henryjames #quotes #booksky
@derekgneal.bsky.socialMiss Chancellor would have been much happier if the movements she was interested in could have been carried on only by the people she liked, and if revolutions, somehow, didn't always have to begin with one's self...
—Henry James, 'The Bostonians' (1886)
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@thatiliazdguy.bsky.socialBut Aunt Maud, wonderfully and facing him straight, took it as if her confidence were supplied with other props.
@thatiliazdguy.bsky.socialHe found pleasure in being able to give his hostess an account of his passage with Kate that, while quite veracious, might be reassuring to herself.
@thatiliazdguy.bsky.social*She* keeps me up—she has had so much to say about them."
@thatiliazdguy.bsky.socialThat's exactly, you know, what Miss Croy has been saying to me.
@thatiliazdguy.bsky.social"You're all looking after my manners.
@thatiliazdguy.bsky.socialHe at any rate could but try.
@thatiliazdguy.bsky.socialAffected, surprised by the coincidence of her appeal with Kate's, he asked himself quickly if it mightn't help him with her.
@derekgneal.bsky.social"That is the great thing," Isabel reflected; "that is the supreme good fortune: to be in a better position for appreciating people than they are for appreciating you."
—Henry James, 'The Portrait of a Lady' (1881)
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@thatiliazdguy.bsky.socialDon't, I only mean, in the press of other things, too much neglect her."
@thatiliazdguy.bsky.social"Well, one seemed rather to gather that you hadn't taken out the patent.
@thatiliazdguy.bsky.socialBut you must remember that, so far as her 'interest' is concerned, I myself discovered, I—as was said at dinner—invented her."
@thatiliazdguy.bsky.social"If you mean Miss Theale," he said, "I shall certainly not forget her.
@thatiliazdguy.bsky.socialYou'll find her really interesting."
@thatiliazdguy.bsky.social"Return to our little friend.
@thatiliazdguy.bsky.socialIt was an imperative "Wait a minute," by which she both detained and dismissed him; she was particular about her minute, but he hadn't yet given her, as happened, a sign of withdrawal.