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...nce of smoking during these twilight prowls with the threepenny packets of American cigarettes then just ap- pearing in the world. My life centred upo... ...etty meekly, sniggering a bit, sentimentalising a bit, like—like Cambridge humorists… . I mean to know what I’m doing.” He paused to drink, and I thin... ...ng is a necessary function in a nation. The Romans broke up upon that. The Americans fade out amidst their successes. Eugenics—” “That wasn’t Eugenics... ... rotating bookcase containing an excellent col- lection of the English and American humorists from Three Men in a Boat to the penultimate Mark T wain.... ... bookcase containing an excellent col- lection of the English and American humorists from Three Men in a Boat to the penultimate Mark T wain. There wa... ...rst of endless points of resemblance between them and the commoner sort of American girl. When some years ago I paid my first and only visit to Americ... ... the teeming uproars of reality. There was not a dozen people all told, no Americans and scarcely any English, to dine in the big cavern of a dining- ...

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...h due allowance, to that of Mistigris, consisted of a shabby surtout coat, American-green in color, much worn, but clean and well-brushed; a black wai... ... cost him nothing to oblige me. It concerns a claim I wish to press on the American government. I should be glad to obtain information about Monsieur ... ...agic Skin 155 Balzac Another Study of Woman Beatrix The Unconscious Humorists The Member for Arcis Cardot, Jean-Jerome-Severin Lost Illusio... ... Middle Classes 157 Balzac Cousin Betty Lora, Leon de The Unconscious Humorists A Bachelor’s Establishment Pierre Grassou Honorine Cousin... ...ernment Clerks Modeste Mignon The Imaginary Mistress The Unconscious Humorists Serizy, Comte Hugret de A Bachelor’s Establishment Honorine ...

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... successful, no one will ask me who I am. I shall be Mr. Four Millions, an American citizen. I shall be fifty years old by then, and sound and hearty ... ...rteen 252 Father Goriot Marsay, Henri de The Thirteen The Unconscious Humorists Another Study of Woman The Lily of the Valley Jealousies of... ... of Business Cousin Betty The Muse of the Department The Unconscious Humorists 253 Balzac Nucingen, Baronne Delphine de The Thirteen Eugeni... ... Cousin Betty The Member for Arcis 254 Father Goriot The Unconscious Humorists Rastignac, Laure-Rose and Agathe de Lost Illusions The Member... ...ousin Betty The Member for Arcis 255 Balzac Beatrix The Unconscious Humorists To return to the Electronic Classics Series, go to http://www.hn....

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...ls, walls hung with an olive-green paper, and otherwise decorated with the American Declaration of Independence, a portrait of Bonaparte as First Cons... ... of Business Cousin Betty The Muse of the Department The Unconscious Humorists 282 Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau Nucingen, Baronne Delphine ... ...cis Cousin Betty 284 Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau The Unconscious Humorists T railles, Comte Maxime de Father Goriot Gobseck Ursule Mir... ...cis The Secrets of a Princess Cousin Betty Beatrix The Unconscious Humorists Vaillant, Madame Facino Cane Vandenesse, Marquise Charles de ...

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...therwise iden tical with it. She was dressed as simply as possible, in an American print (I think the dry goods people call it so), but with a silken... ... was fast going mad; and, as with other crazy people (among whom I include humorists of every degree), it required all the constancy of friendship to ... ... fall 133 Hawthorne in love with Priscilla. In society, indeed, a genuine American never dreams of stepping across the inappreciable air line which s...

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...ack. “It is generally well known that out of the crews of Whaling vessels (American) few ever return in the ships on board of which they departed.” —C... ...water there be in all that region. Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied... ... great original— the Tyre of this Carthage;—the place where the first dead American whale was stranded. Where else but from Nan- tucket did those abor... ...lagoes which had no chart, where no Cook or V ancouver had ever sailed. If American and European men-of-war now peacefully ride in once sav- age harbo... ...thousand men before the mast employed in the Ameri- can whale fishery, are Americans born, though pretty nearly all the officers are. Herein it is the... ...like a charm upon the crew. Then again, Stubb was one of those odd sort of humorists, whose jollity is sometimes so curiously ambiguous, as to put all...

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...more favored individuals did credit to Miriam’s selection. One was a young American sculptor, of high promise and rapidly increasing celebrity; the ot... ...adle. According to a third statement, she was the off-spring of a Southern American planter, who had given her an elabo- rate education and endowed he... ... time, leaving it to be the thoroughfare of ambassadors, English noblemen, American millionnaires, artists, tradesmen, washerwomen, and people of ever... ... indeed, I am afraid you would never come down among us again.” This young American girl was an example of the freedom of life which it is possible fo... ...t English accent on her tongue, but much that is not English breeding, nor American. Nowhere else but in Rome, and as an artist, could she hold a plac... ...ends peacefully along its base, full, not of apple-trees, but of those old humorists with gnarled trunks and twisted boughs, the olives. Houses have b...

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...ed an enor- mous bunch of old trinkets, among which in 1824 he still wore “American beads,” which were very much the fashion in the year VII. In the b... ...ling his cane and of flinging the sort of glance which Bixiou told him was American. He smiled to show his fine teeth; he wore no socks under his boot... ...nd China (where all government officials steal), also that of Austria, the American republics, and indeed that of the whole world, to the fact that fo... ...for Arcis Beatrix A Man of Business Gaudissart II. The Unconscious Humorists Cousin Pons Brezacs (The) The Country Parson Bruel, Jean Fran... ...inary Mistress A Prince of Bohemia A Daughter of Eve The Unconscious Humorists Phellion The Middle Classes Poiret, the elder Father Goriot ... ...Albert Savarus Modeste Mignon The Imaginary Mistress The Unconscious Humorists Sommervieux, Theodore de At the Sign of the Cat and Racket Mo...

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... three thousand francs, a gift from Havana, which city, at the time of the American War of Independence, he had protected from an attack by the Britis... ... from a Courtesan’s Life Marsay, Henri de The Thirteen The Unconscious Humorists Another Study of Woman The Lily of the Valley Father Goriot... ...inary Mistress A Prince of Bohemia A Daughter of Eve The Unconscious Humorists Portenduere, Vicomte Savinien de The Ball at Sceaux Scenes fr... ...cis The Secrets of a Princess Cousin Betty Beatrix The Unconscious Humorists Vandenesse, Marquise Charles de Cesar Birotteau The Ball at S...

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...his much I believed I had grasped of our code. But to be melan- choly with humorists, gay with the frivolous, and politic with ambitious souls; to lis... ... island, 128 The Duchesse de Langeais and the crew of the vessel were all American sailors, who spoke nothing but English. One of M. de Montriveau’s ...

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...ngen had purposely and with his eyes open invested his five millions in an American investment, foreseeing that the profits would not come in until it... ...air dancing saloons at the barriers; him he engaged to play the part of an American captain staying at Meurice’s and buying for export trade. He was t... ...to the woolen weaver and rushed upon the stock. After that, no more of the American captain, you understand, and great plenty of caps. If you interfer... ...for Arcis Beatrix A Man of Business Gaudissart II. The Unconscious Humorists Cousin Pons Blondet, Emile Jealousies of a Country T own A ... ... of Business Cousin Betty The Muse of the Department The Unconscious Humorists Nucingen, Baronne Delphine de Father Goriot The Thirteen Eu... ...Mystery 73 Balzac Cousin Betty The Member for Arcis The Unconscious Humorists Taillefer, Jean-Frederic Father Goriot The Magic Skin The R... ... A Daughter of Eve The Member for Arcis Cousin Betty The Unconscious Humorists Toby (Joby, Paddy) The Secrets of a Princess Werbrust Cesar B...

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...e with Maule’s malediction in The story. Furthermore, there occurs in The “American Note-Books” (August 27, 1837), a reminiscence of The author’s fami... ...nt of lands in Waldo County, Maine, owned by the Pyncheon family. In the “ American Note-Books” there is an entry, dated August 12, 1837, which speaks... ...rd, and beast, in as grotesque a landscape. These pictured people were odd humorists, in a 69 Hawthorne world of their own,—a world of vivid brillian...

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...an by Henry James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The American by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Universi... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The American by Henry James, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Clas... ...ia State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Henry James The American by Henry James 1877 CHAPTER I O n a brilliant day in May, in the y... ...he truth must be told, he had often admired the copy much more than 4 The American the original. His physiognomy would have sufficiently in- dicated ... ...national mould. The gentleman on the divan was a power- ful specimen of an American. But he was not only a fine American; he was in the first place, p... ...used him to heighten the color of the episode. Newman had sat with Western humorists in knots, round cast-iron stoves, and seen “tall” stories grow ta...

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...Anglo-Saxon. Here the reader will go forward past the stores of Mr. Moors (American) and Messrs. MacArthur (English); past the English mission, the of... ...sion, the office of the English newspaper, the English church, and the old American consulate, till he reaches the mouth of a larger river, the Vaisin... ...consul, and compass the fall of officials, with an eye to salary. Some are humorists, delighted with the pleasure of faction for itself. “I never saw ... ... the D. H. and P . G., the Old Firm, the German Firm, the Firm, and (among humorists) the Long Handle Firm. Even from the deck of an approaching ship,... ...ven theirs are not immaculate. It was an ambiguous business when a private American adventurer was landed with his pieces of artillery from an America... ...friendly sovereign) was kidnapped and de- ported, on the requisition of an American consul, by the captain of an English war-ship. I shall have to tel... ...sion of Stuebel, was in the market supplying him with weapons; so were the Americans; so, but for our salutary British law, would have been the Britis...

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...ery day be- yond the round tower built by Francois I., to look out for the American packet, enduring the keenest anxieties. Moth- ers alone know how s... ...ber for Arcis Beatrix A Man of Business Gaudissart II. The Unconscious Humorists Cousin Pons Brambourg, Comte de (Title of Philippe Bridau, later... ...ourg, Comte de (Title of Philippe Bridau, later Jo- seph) The Unconscious Humorists Bridau, Philippe Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life Bridau, Joseph ... ...vincial at Paris Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life Beatrix The Unconscious Humorists Gerard, Francois-Pascal-Simon, Baron Beatrix Giraud, Leon A Dis... ...tinguished Provincial at Paris The Secrets of a Princess The Unconscious Humorists Giroudeau A Distinguished Provincial at Paris A Start in Life G... ...een The Seamy Side of History Cousin Pons Lora, Leon de The Unconscious Humorists A Start in Life Pierre Grassou Honorine 277 Balzac Cousin Be...

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... He thanked heaven to his wife often, that he had nothing to do with North American or South American mines and pastures or with South Africa and, gol... ...and in- structed Germans not deviously march; whom acute and ad- venturous Americans, with half a cock of the eye in passing, compassionately outstrip... ...nt of commercial matters: rivalries of Banks; Foreign and Municipal Loans, American Rails, and Argen- tine; new Companies of wholesome appearance or s... ...but stupefying mission. A fluent lin- guist, yet an Englishman, the slight American accent con- tracted during a lengthened residence in the United St... ...xon’s champion. On a day patented for secresy, and swear- ing-in the whole American Continent through the cables to keep the secret by declaring the p... ...lities were noth- ing other than dupes of a New-York Syndicate of American Humorists, not without an eye on the mainchance; and he was sure they would...

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...d Dumay to his wife, mak- ing her sit close by him. Madame Dumay, a little American about thirty-six years of age, wiped her eyes furtively; she adore... ... richest com- mercial house in Havre. Madame Dumay, a rather pretty little American, had the misfortune to lose all her children at their birth; and h... ...d Dumay, “and you shall be a notary and the successor of Latournelle.” The American wife took the hand of the poor hunchback and pressed it. “What! yo... ...e heart by Modeste’s words. “Good-bye, wife,” said the Breton, kissing the American. “Take care of the mother; I go to save the daughter.” He made his... ... these fluctuations were carefully remarked and commented on by the gentle American, and the excellent Madame Latournelle, and they formed the topic o... ...Beatrix A Man of Business 243 Balzac Gaudissart II. The Unconscious Humorists Cousin Pons Blondet, Emile Jealousies of a Country Town A D... ...kin Another Study of Woman A Start in Life Beatrix The Unconscious Humorists The Member for Arcis Chatillonest, De A Woman of Thirty Chaul... ... Prince de The Chouans Marsay, Henri de The Thirteen The Unconscious Humorists Another Study of Woman The Lily of the Valley Father Goriot... ...Savarus The Government Clerks The Imaginary Mistress The Unconscious Humorists Serizy, Comte Hugret de A Start in Life A Bachelor’s Establis...

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...nd simplic- ity and depth which distinguished the wonderful heroine of the American Puritans. She had too, without knowing it, a love that was eating ... ...for Arcis Beatrix A Man of Business Gaudissart II. The Unconscious Humorists Cousin Pons Blondet, Emile Jealousies of a Country T own A ... ...ishment The Thirteen Collin, Jacqueline Cousin Betty The Unconscious Humorists Collin, Jacques Father Goriot Lost Illusions A Distinguishe... ... Distinguished Provincial at Paris 491 Balzac Beatrix The Unconscious Humorists Gaillard, Madame Theodore Jealousies of a Country Town A Dist... ...ovincial at Paris A Bachelor’s Establishment Beatrix The Unconscious Humorists Gaudissart, Felix Cousin Pons Cesar Birotteau Honorine Ga... ...ince of Bohemia A Man of Business The Middle Classes The Unconscious Humorists Lupeaulx, Clement Chardin des The Muse of the Department 494 S...

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...letter told Marie that he had been ap- pointed Captain in the navy of some American republic, and exhorted him to hope for better days. Alas! since th... ...kin Another Study of Woman A Start in Life Beatrix The Unconscious Humorists The Member for Arcis Chaulieu, Henri, Duc de Modeste Mignon ... ... from a Courtesan’s Life Marsay, Henri de The Thirteen The Unconscious Humorists Another Study of Woman The Lily of the Valley Father Goriot... ...the Department A Prince of Bohemia A Man of Business The Unconscious Humorists Rhetore, Duc Alphonse de A Bachelor’s Establishment A Disting...

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...ends peacefully along its base, full, not of apple-trees, but of those old humorists with gnarled trunks and twisted boughs, the olives. Houses have b... ...r worth his pencil than the newly painted pine boxes, in which—if he be an American—his countrymen live and thrive. But there is reason to suspect tha... ...the V atican, with my palette and my brushes, and shall look for my little American artist that sees into the very heart of the grand pictures! And wh... ... overstepped the mark, it was sure to be no Roman, but an Englishman or an American; and even the rougher play of this Gothic race was still soft- ene...

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... do you not leave everything for my sake?” asked the Brazilian. This South American born, being logical, as men are who 164 Cousin Betty have lived t... ... you?” “Valerie,” said the official, “my child, that cousin of yours is an American cousin—” “Oh, that is enough!” she cried, interrupting the Baron. ... ...quite inexplicable. The disease is peculiar 369 Balzac to negroes and the American tribes, whose skin is differently constituted to that of the white... ...for Arcis Beatrix A Man of Business Gaudissart II. The Unconscious Humorists Cousin Pons Braulard A Distinguished Provincial at Paris Co... ...Cousin Pons The Middle Classes Cadine, Jenny Beatrix The Unconscious Humorists The Member for Arcis Chanor Cousin Pons Chocardelle, Mademois... ...sses Collin, Jacqueline Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life The Unconscious Humorists Crevel, Celestin Cesar Birotteau Cousin Pons Esgrignon, Victu... ... Brides The Member for Arcis 395 Balzac Lora, Leon de The Unconscious Humorists A Bachelor’s Establishment A Start in Life Pierre Grassou ... ...ince of Bohemia A Man of Business The Middle Classes The Unconscious Humorists Massol Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life The Magic Skin A Daug...

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...anat, the Re- ceiver-General’s wife, spoke with some enthusiasm of a young American owning an immense fortune, who had fallen pas- sionately in love w... ...ge Settlement Marsay, Henri de The Thirteen 57 Balzac The Unconscious Humorists Another Study of Woman The Lily of the Valley Father Goriot... ...e Firm of Nucingen Cousin Betty The Member for Arcis The Unconscious Humorists 58 The Ball at Sceaux Vandenesse, Marquise Charles de (Emilie de...

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...ht me of sending a pair of moccasins given to Florine as a curiosity by an American. Florine offered the huge sum of forty francs, that we might try o... ... from a Courtesan’s Life Marsay, Henri de The Thirteen The Unconscious Humorists Another Study of Woman The Lily of the Valley Father Goriot... ... of Business Cousin Betty The Muse of the Department The Unconscious Humorists Nucingen, Baronne Delphine de Father Goriot The Thirteen Eu... ...e Firm of Nucingen Cousin Betty The Member for Arcis The Unconscious Humorists Rubempre, Lucien-Chardon de T wo Poets A Distinguished Provin...

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...ness, how the immortal idea happened to occur to him; and as is the way with humorists of his breed, he was still laughing at it after everybody else ... ...t. Of course that taint, that reverence for rank and title, had been in our American blood, too — I know that; but when I left America it had disapp... ... which I had heard attributed to every humorous person who had ever stood on American soil, from Columbus down to Artemus W ard. It was about a humoro... ...uiet. The talk of these meek people had a strange enough sound in a formerly American ear. They were freemen, but they could not leave the estates of ... ..., and that would have pleased me; and them, too, not less. I had adopted the American values exclusively. In a week or two now, cents, nickels, dimes... ...d it made him comfortable to think so; whereas, in fact, it was paid by the American people, and was so equally and exactly distributed among them th...

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...ause I happened to be one of them myself, were all, in their various ways, humorists. “Sidney’s Sister: Pembroke’s Mother” And now to return to Shakes... ...kespear, there must have been many people about who idolized Shakespear as American ladies idolize Paderewski, and who carried Bardolatry, even in the...

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...ll we eager him to eat of it himself. The same spirit inspired Miss Bird’s American missionaries, who had come thousands of miles to change the faith ... ... their ignorance of the religions they were trying to supplant. I quote an American in this connection without scruple. Uncle Sam is better than John ... ...the largest, to a clique of states; and the whole scope and atmosphere not American, but merely Yankee. I will go far beyond him in reprobating the as... ...re to look when I find myself 7 Memories and Portraits in company with an American and see my countrymen un- bending to him as to a performing dog. B... ...npopulous. It is not so for nothing. I once seemed to have perceived in an American boy a greater readiness of sympathy for lands that are great, and ... ...ld deform the attitudes he loves to study, and change his sitters from the humorists of ordinary life to the brute forces and bare types of more emoti...