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The Sacred Fount: Novel New edition
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The Sacred Fount: Novel New edition
Henry James
Excerpt: ...opposed to that of my friends, offered somehow the relief of a suggestive analogy. What I could directly clutch at was that if the exception did prove the rule in the one case it might equally prove it in the other. If on a rare occasion one of these couples might be divided, so, by as uncommon a chance, the other might be joined; the only difference being in the gravity of the violated law. For which pair was the betrayal greatest? It was not till dinner was nearly ended and the ladies were about to withdraw that I recovered lucidity to make out how much more machinery would have had to be put into motion consistently to prevent, than once in a way to minimise, the disconcerting accident. All accidents, I must add, were presently to lose themselves in the unexpectedness of my finding myself, before we left the dining-room, in easy talk with Gilbert Long
250 pages, illustrations
Medien | Bücher Taschenbuch (Buch mit Softcover und geklebtem Rücken) |
Erscheinungsdatum | 30. März 1995 |
ISBN13 | 9780811212793 |
Verlag | New Directions Publishing Corporation |
Seitenanzahl | 244 |
Maße | 128 × 200 × 15 mm · 284 g |
Sprache | Englisch |
Mitwirkende | Leon Edel |
Mitwirkende | R. P. Blackmur |
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