HENRY JAMES

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The Portrait of a Lady was, like ""Roderick Hudson,"" begun in Florence, during three months spent there in the spring of 1879. Like ""Roderick"" and like ""The American,"" it had been designed for publication in ""The Atlantic Monthly,"" where it began to appear in 1880. It differed from its two predecessors, however, in finding a course also o...

Olive will come down in about ten minutes; she told me to tell you that. About ten; that is exactly like Olive. Neither five nor fifteen, and yet not ten exactly, but either nine or eleven. She didn't tell me to say she was glad to see you, because she doesn't know whether she is or not, and she wouldn't for the world expose herself to telling a...

The Prince had always liked his London, when it had come to him; he was one of the modern Romans who find by the Thames a more convincing image of the truth of the ancient state than any they have left by the Tiber. Brought up on the legend of the City to which the world paid tribute, he recognised in the present London much more than in contemp...