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by
Henry James
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June 6 - June 25, 2025
“For dreadful—dreadfulness!”
“And is the record yours? You took the thing down?” “Nothing but the impression.
placid heavenly eyes that contained nothing to check us.
but speaking to them proved quite as much as ever an effort beyond my strength—offered,
Why wouldn't she just talk to them?!
turn my matters had now taken, my predicament,
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infamous, if, by pronouncing them, I should violate as rare a little case of instinctive delicacy as any schoolroom, probably, had ever known.
Manners over sanity!
“THEY have the manners to be silent, and you, trusted as you are, the baseness to speak!”
impossible to have given less encouragement than he had done to such a doctrine, but if we had not had the
Crazy how disinterested the uncle is.
Adorable they must in truth have been, I now reflect, that I didn’t in these days hate them!
Mixed feelings
“Oh, I’m happy enough anywhere!”
the specter of the most horrible of women.
Why?
Dishonored
How
they had in some way bribed her to silence; a silence
Deluded ?
You’ll have to tell him—about the way you’ve let it all drop: you’ll have to tell him a tremendous lot!”
“To let me alone,” he
Confusing.School or alone?
What she and I had virtually said to each other
She was there for poor scared Mrs. Grose, but she was there most for Flora; and no moment of my monstrous time was
turn of the screw of ordinary human virtue.
I’ll tell you anything you like. You’ll stay on with me, and we shall both be all right, and I WILL tell you—I WILL. But not
