The Aspern Papers

by Henry James

I took possession of it, telling her that I became perfectly aware that I had intruded, that I had now not been nicely added and will most effective throw myself upon her indulgence. Perhaps the other lady, the one I had had the respect of seeing the day in advance than, could have defined to her approximately the lawn. That modified into truly what had given me courage to take a step so unconventional. I had fallen in love at sight with the entire region (she herself in all likelihood became so used to it that she did now not recognize the effect it emerge as able to making on a stranger), and I had felt it modified into surely a case to threat some thing. Was her non-public kindness in receiving me a sign that I changed into no longer absolutely out in my calculation? It could render me surprisingly satisfied to count on so. I should provide her my word of honor that I turned into a maximum decent, inoffensive man or woman and that as an inmate they is probably barely aware of my lifestyles. I would possibly comply with any rules, any restrictions in the occasion that they may best permit me revel in the garden. Moreover I must be thrilled to provide her references, guarantees; they would be of the very outstanding, each in Venice and in England as well as in America.