The Aspern Papers

by Henry James

Of course she had no longer the responsibilities of an editor. It changed into no clarification of the antique girl’s having eluded us to say that she lived foreign places, for our researches had over and over taken us (not excellent by way of correspondence but by private inquiry) to France, to Germany, to Italy, wherein international locations, now not counting his critical stay in England, so a few of the too few years of Aspern’s profession were spent. We have been happy to anticipate at least that in all our publishings (a few human beings keep in thoughts I take into account that we have were given overdone them), we had simplest touched in passing and within the maximum discreet way on Miss Bordereau’s connection. Oddly sufficient, although we had had the cloth (and we regularly puzzled what had turn out to be of it), it would had been the most difficult episode to handle.