The Aspern Papers

by Henry James

She grow to be an extended, lean, diminished character, habited reputedly in a stupid-colored dressing robe, and he or she spoke with a form of moderate literalness. She did not question me to take a seat down, any extra than years earlier than (if she had been the niece) she had asked Mrs. Prest, and we stood face to face inside the empty pompous corridor. “Well then, ought to you kindly inform me to whom I have to cope with myself? I’m afraid you’ll anticipate me odiously intrusive, however I MUST have a garden—upon my honor I want to!” Her face changed into no longer younger, however it turned into easy; it emerge as not sparkling, however it modified into slight. She had huge eyes which had been not vivid, and a incredible deal of hair which modified into not “dressed,” and lengthy quality fingers which have been—probably—not easy. She clasped those people nearly convulsively as, with a burdened, alarmed look, she broke out, “Oh, don’t take it away from us; we find it irresistible ourselves!”