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Page 65
... death she treated just as flippantly and lightly . At the very end of her life , turning to a friend of about the same age : ' I think I'm going to die in a fortnight . When are you pushing off ? ' she sympathetically en- quired . As it ...
... death she treated just as flippantly and lightly . At the very end of her life , turning to a friend of about the same age : ' I think I'm going to die in a fortnight . When are you pushing off ? ' she sympathetically en- quired . As it ...
Page 94
... death . A further defect is the novelist's bad habit ( which she would never wholly overcome ) of standing back to deliver gnomic pronouncements upon the relationship of the sexes and the origins of love . Her dialogues , too , are ...
... death . A further defect is the novelist's bad habit ( which she would never wholly overcome ) of standing back to deliver gnomic pronouncements upon the relationship of the sexes and the origins of love . Her dialogues , too , are ...
Page 109
... death- bed , Henry James described how , when he was a little boy , his father , the high - minded Swedenborgian enthusiast * , had taken him to tea at Cheyne Row . The novelist would finish his life in Chelsea ; and , while he was ...
... death- bed , Henry James described how , when he was a little boy , his father , the high - minded Swedenborgian enthusiast * , had taken him to tea at Cheyne Row . The novelist would finish his life in Chelsea ; and , while he was ...
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PROLOGUE I | 1 |
The Desire to Please | 25 |
The Disinterested Gift | 47 |
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