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The Golden Bowl

By: Henry James

...ss of these latter—of the fact that my large demand is made for a group of agents who may be counted on the fingers of one hand. We see very few person... ...heir kind and calculating results and chances. He might in old bewildering climates, in old campaigns of cruelty and licence, have had such revelation... ...u might feel, they stamped the place with their impor tance, as the house agents say; so that on one side or the other you were never out of their ra... ...tin necktie; and, over his concave little stomach, quaintly indifferent to climates and seasons, a white duck waistcoat. “Should you really,” he now a... ...raordinary decree had ever been launched against such victims than this of forcing them against their will into a relation of mutual close contact tha... ...find her solution in acting, herself, in the spirit of what he had done, in forcing her “care” really to grow as much less as he had tried to make it. ... ...on, for a cause; and the labour of this detachment, with the labour of her forcing the pitch of it down, held them together in the steel hoop of an in...

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