Henry James: The Complete Supernatural Stories (20+ tales of ghosts and mystery: The Turn of the Screw, The Real Right Thing, The Ghostly Rental, The Beast in the Jungle...) (Halloween Stories)

by Henry James

She had taken life, as she liked a cup of tea, — weak, with an exquisite aroma and plenty of cream and sugar.

She had never lost her temper for the excellent reason that she had none to lose.

He had never known nor heard of Baker Street as a residence — he associated it only with bazaars and photographers.

Not for long.

Her clear forehead — it was like a porcelain slate, a receptacle for addresses and sums

He was almost as much a man of the world as the head-waiter, and spoke almost as many languages;

This was a wife for foreign service or purely external use;

A woman, when wronged, was always more wronged than a man,

you don’t know whether they might have been attractive if they had been happy, or might have been happy if they had been attractive.

It’s the gradual effect of brooding over the past; the past, that way, grows and grows. They make it and make it.

There were persons to be observed, singly or in couples, bending toward objects in out-of-the-way corners with their hands on their knees and their heads nodding quite as with the emphasis of an excited sense of smell.