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...enry James A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Washington Square by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University... ...ment or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Washington Square by Henry James, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classi... ...e University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Henry James Washington Square by Henry James From the 1921 Macmillan and Co. edition. CHAPTER I Du... ...left behind him an inscrutable prescription. There were some 4 Washington Square doctors that left the prescription without offering any explanation ... ...uld not know, of course, was that she disappointed him, though on three or four occasions the Doctor had been almost frank about it. She grew up peace... ...lmond’s party was the beginning of something very important. Some three or four years before this Dr. Sloper had moved his household gods up town, as ... ... father believed her. CHAPTER V He learned what he had asked some three or four days later, after Morris Townsend, with his cousin, had called in Wash... ...t house in New York. “It doesn’t matter,” he said; “it’s only for three or four years. At the end of three or four years we’ll move. That’s the way to... ...ears we’ll move. That’s the way to live in New York—to move every three or four years. Then you always get the last thing. It’s because the city’s gro...

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...Excerpt: In a certain quiet and sequestered nook of the retired village of London -- perhaps in the neighborhood of Berkeley Square, or at any rate somewhere near Burlington Gardens--there was once a house of entertainment called the ?Bootjack Hotel.? Mr. Crump, the landlord, had, in the outset of life, performed the duties of Boots in some inn eve...

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...f the retired village of London – perhaps in the neighbourhood of Berkeley Square, or at any rate somewhere near Burlington Gardens—there was once a h... ...e used to dance: I have not the name to my hand, but think it is Davidson. Four times in the week, at least, her mother and she used to sail off at ni... ...ines under his arm, and an umbrella and a little brown frock-coat, and big square- toed shoes with which he went papping down the street. He was every... ...ey keep the ‘Bootjack’ public-house in Bunker’s Buildings, and they’ve got fourteen children. Is one of them handsome, eh, you sly rogue—and is it tha... ...cket, arrived at the “Bootjack Hotel,” Little Bunker’s Buildings, Berkeley Square (for it must out—that was the place in which Mr. Crump’s inn was sit... ...as even more aston- ished than her mamma, on beholding the occupier of the fourth place at the table. Had she expected to see the fascinating stranger... ... possession of “her lovely ‘and before the haltar of St. George’s, ‘Anover Square.” As for Woolsey, Eglantine determined that he should have the best ... ...did not drink champagne I am very much mistaken. They were as merry as any four people in Christendom; and between the bewildering attentions of the p... ...e delight of the company was only more intense. The fly was going at about four miles an hour, and the “Em- peror” began cantering to time at the same...

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...e, go ahead and explore. Snf! Snf! Beastly stink of fox somewhere!” On all fours, save when he clung to his spectacles, Beetle wormed into the gorse, ... ...to their inexpressible joy, ended, at the very edge of the cliff, in a few square feet of dry turf walled and roofed with impenetrable gorse. Rudyard... ... me now, as one gentleman to another. Do ye shoot foxes or do ye not?” And four years before Stalky and Beetle had carefully kicked McT urk out of his... ...un- tains of the rainy West coast, where in his holidays he was viceroy of four thousand naked acres, only son of a three- hundred-year-old house, lor... ...was strictly quarantined, and the Head never executed judgment till twenty-four cold hours later. “Well—er—if you persist in your defiant attitude,” s... ...he “Aladdin” company at rehearsal. Dickson Quartus, commonly known as Dick Four, was Aladdin, stage-man- ager, ballet-master, half the orchestra, and ... ...e dormer window, and the latter end of Richards protruding from a two-foot-square cupboard in the wall. “What’s all this? I’ve never noticed it before... ...ty, they sprawled across the harrow, the rust marking their ulsters in red squares and the abandoned cheroot-end reeking under their very cold noses. ...

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... and myself. The director had been a Conway boy, the accountant had served four years at sea, the law- yer—a fine crusted Tory, High Churchman, the be... ... officer in the P . & O. service in the good old days when mail-boats were square- rigged at least on two masts, and used to come down the China Sea b... ...lass, wooden latches to the doors, not a bit of brass about her, and a big square stern. There was on it, below her name in big letters, a lot of scro... ...-rod I caught a glimpse of their weary, se- rious faces. We pumped all the four hours. We pumped all night, all day, all the week,—watch and watch. Sh... ...badly, the water keeping comparatively smooth. Two hours’ pumping in every four is no joke—but it kept her afloat as far as Falmouth. “The good people... ...—in a something hooker that wanted pump- ing eight hours out of the twenty-four; and the nautical papers inserted again the little paragraph: ‘Judea. ... ...y say,’ and walked aft. “The first thing I did was to put my head down the square of the midship ventilator. As I lifted the lid a visible breath, som... ...ard cooked and attended on us. Of the other twelve men, eight worked while four rested. Everyone took his turn, captain included. There was equality, ... ... placidly, and as if lost in thought, he in- sisted on having the foreyard squared. ‘I don’t know if there’s anybody alive,’ said Mahon, almost tearfu...

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...the big port of England in Roman times, Portus Lemanus, and now the sea is four miles away. All down the steep hill are boulders and masses of Roman b... ...o amazement and curiosity. Why on earth should a man do this thing? On the fourteenth evening I could stand it no longer, and so soon as he appeared I... ...direction. This is the only one. I’ve inquired. And now—every afternoon at four—I come to a 9 H. G . Wells dead wall.” “But, my dear sir, if the thin... ... But you must remember, that I had been alone, play-writing in Lympne, for fourteen days, and my compunction for his ruined walk still hung about me. ... ...e out of this, you’ll have to do it with a gun. I’m coming down to be your fourth labourer to-morrow.” He seemed surprised at my enthusiasm, but not a... ... “the most important” research the world had ever seen, he simply meant it squared up so many theo- ries, settled so much that was in doubt; he had tr... ...shing trees that writhed about his house. A mass of smoke and ashes, and a square of bluish shining substance rushed up towards the zenith. A large fr... ... in all direc- tions, with a pressure of fourteen and a half pounds to the square inch? “ “I know that,” said I. “ Go on.” “I know that too,” he remar... ... the Cavorite was exerting a pressure of fourteen pounds and a half to the square in upon this suddenly weightless air. Ah! you begin to see! The air ...

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...the cen- ter of the city was three miles away—Zenith had between three and four hundred thousand inhabitants now—he could see the top of the Second Na... ...ng, Ted observed that her friends were “a scream of a bunch-stuck-up gabby four-flushers.” His friends, she indicated, were “disgusting imitation spor... ...bbitt.” “But I’ll tell you—and my stand on this is just the same as it was four years ago, and eight years ago, and it’ll be my stand four years from ... ...eves Building was as fireproof as a rock and as efficient as a typewriter; fourteen stories of yellow pressed brick, with clean, upright, unornamented... ...lberta Bannigan, the thick, slow, laborious accountant and file-clerk; and four freelance part-time commission salesmen. As he looked from his own cag... ...n’t hire her to divorce me, no, nor desert me. She’s too fond of her three squares and a few pounds of nut-center chocolates in between. If she’d only... ...al going to exactly the same evensong at the same gray stone church with a square tower, and every golfing prig in Harris tweeds saying ‘Right you are... ...eco is a mighty good buy. Couple weeks ago, and mind you, this was a fair, square test, they took a Zeeco stock touring-car and they slid up the Tonaw... ... was seeping away. They stood in the hall, under the electric light in its square box-like shade of red glass bound with nickel. She stared at him. “W...

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...s and extracted a refractory tooth with his thumb and finger. His head was square-cut, angular; the jaw salient, like that of the carnivora. McTeague’... ...fling of feet, the rattle of wheels, the heavy trundling of cable cars. At four o’clock the school children once more swarmed the sidewalks, again dis... ... instant. “I promised a duck up here on the avenue I’d call for his dog at four this afternoon.” Marcus was Old Grannis’s assistant in a little dog ho... ...l that the latter had opened in a sort of alley just off Polk Street, some four blocks above Old Grannis lived in one of the back rooms of McTeague’s ... ... the flat were yet vibrant with it. Old Grannis came home from his work at four o’clock, and between that time and six Miss Baker would sit in her roo... ...her place in the operating chair and told him what was the matter, looking squarely into his face. She had fallen out of a swing the afternoon of the ... ... vices and sins of his father and of his father’s father, to the third and fourth and five hundredth generation, tainted him. The evil of an entire ra... ...ght- ened at his huge hands—the hands of the old-time car- boy—his immense square-cut head and his enormous brute strength, cried out: “No, no,” behin... ... the whiskey. “Now, go on,” repeated Zerkow; “let’s have the story.” Maria squared her elbows on the deal table, looking straight in front of her with...

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.... I had brought from home a box containing a thousand very cheap cigars. By way of experiment, I stepped into a little shop in a queer old back street... ... the grace of his manner, and fine conversation he knew to win the Queen, and she graciously accorded him a second dance for which he begged, a third,... ... give orders. Two women-servants came out with pails and brooms and brushes, and gave the sidewalk a thorough scrub- bing; meanwhile two others scrubb... ...cover the whole ground. A jay hasn’t got any more principle than a Congressman. A jay will lie, a jay will steal, a jay will deceive, a jay will betra... ...bloody. The surgeon stopped it when he saw that one of the men had received such bad wounds that he could not fight longer without endangering his lif... .... We stopped at the very same inn which the famous old robber-knight and rough fighter Go”tz von Berlichingen, abode in after he got out of captivity ... ...o unbrokenly, that when they were closed one had to go feeling and searching along the wall to find them. There was a stove in the corner—one of those... ...y Tilly and other great generals, and one was a letter written and subscribed by Go”tz von Berlichingen in Heilbronn in 1519 just after his release fr... ...fine old German Robin Hood, though I was not able to read it. He was a better artist with his sword than with his pen. We went down by the river and s...

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...m provides for its favoured members. He passed ten hours out of the twenty-four in Saville Row, either in sleeping or mak- ing his toilet. When he cho... ...ter, because that luckless youth had brought him shav- ing-water at eighty-four degrees Fahrenheit instead of eighty- six; and he was awaiting his suc... ...was due at the house between eleven and half-past. Phileas Fogg was seated squarely in his armchair, his feet close together like those of a grenadier... ...oo slow,” said Mr. Fogg. “Pardon me, monsieur, it is impossible—” “You are four minutes too slow. No matter; it’s enough to mention the error. Now fro... ...on. The perusal of this paper absorbed Phileas Fogg until a quarter before four, whilst the Standard, his next task, occupied him till the dinner hour... ...” “It depends on you. Shall we go?” “Heaven preserve me! But I would wager four thousand pounds that such a journey, made under these conditions, is i... ...indispensable.” “And where is the consulate?” “There, on the corner of the square,” said Fix, pointing to a house two hundred steps off. “I’ll go and ... ...ex in the south, which is called India, embraces fourteen hundred thousand square miles, upon which is spread unequally a population of one hundred an... ...ut British India, properly so called, only embraces seven hundred thousand square miles, and a population of from one hundred to one hundred and ten m...

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...nd farmer-gen- eral have both lived (which fact serves to explain it), are four thousand acres of woodland, a park of some nine hundred acres, the mil... ...the buildings on the lake of Thune. When you stroll in the park, which has four gates, each superb in style, you feel that our mythological Arcadias a... ...Jean d’Angely, Cassan, built by a mistress of the Prince de Conti; in all, four royal houses have disappeared in the valley of the Oise alone. We are ... ...s, the little woman retires into her own room and leaves him to shout. But four or five hours later she will say: “Don’t get into a passion, my dear, ... ... know something of agriculture, I supposed the tale of estates bringing in four or five thousand francs a month to be a fable. Money, to me, meant a c... ... for his breakfast, a huge capital “I” in green on a white ground two feet square; and for the benefit of those who could read, this witty joke in twe... ...hing valley. The cattle and grain market was held at Blangy, in the public square, and the prices there obtained served as a tariff for the whole arro... ...! Black and dirty palings disgraced the approach to the pa- vilion, making square inclosures with plank roofs for pigs, ducks, and hens, the manure of... ... criminal offence and is taken to the assizes.” “At a franc and a half the square foot for the material only, Monsieur le comte would find his wall wo...

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...se eighteen shirts and lay in a sea stock of Russia ducks,—was the work of four-and-twenty hours; and on the 5 Thackeray 22nd of August, the “Lady Ma... ...place of the town, which may be about 9 Thackeray as big as that pleasing square, Pump Court, Temple. We were taken to an inn, of which I forget the ... ...he Consti- tution; and, indeed, I had forgotten to say, that that majestic square was filled with military, with exceedingly small firelocks, the men ... ...e had an opportunity of seeing some of the civilians of the town. Three or four ladies passed, with fan and mantle; to them came three or four dandies... ...ounging by the fountains to hire,— by the Lisbon and Belem omnibuses, with four mules, jingling along at a good pace; and it seemed to me to present a... ...ourt-architect never knows how to give. The carriages (the canvas one with four seats and the chaise in which I drove) were brought suddenly up to a g... ...uard the passage for its British mistress. The next British lion is Malta, four days further on in the Midland Sea, and ready to spring upon Egypt or ... ...hining white over the finest blue sea. (We, who were looking at Trafalgar Square only the other day!)The sight of that cape must have disgusted Joinv... ...treets, and Don John, tremendous on horseback, in the midst of Black Horse Square. Wherever we looked we could see that enormous “Caledonia,” with he...

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...ore crossed, as quickly as his corpulence would allow, the deserted little square called “The Cloister,” which lies directly behind the chancel of the... ...a very rare thing if during the walks of each week he did not say at least fourteen times, “That excellent spinster certainly has a vocation for servi... ...to study trifles, Birotteau plunged suddenly into deep meditation on these four circumstances, imperceptible in 12 The Vicar of Tours their meaning t... ...n 12 The Vicar of Tours their meaning to others, but to him indicative of four catas- trophes. The total loss of his happiness was evidently fore- sh... ...ematical; and boston could not be played night after night unless at least four persons were present. The defection of her two principal guests oblige... ...ject of an underhand persecution and a vengeance deliberately planned. The four 21 Balzac marked circumstances of the locked door, the forgotten slip... ...t opposite to each other in cane-seated arm-chairs on ei- ther side of the square table, the head of which was taken by the landlady, who seemed to do... ...ts of French architecture, is nineteen hundred feet long, and the two open squares which surround each end are precisely alike. “Don’t you see the mis...

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...en a round brown mole the size of a dime on his left leg above his knee, and four little bits of moles around it, when he was na ked, and he said it ... ...l old folks, that set around, wide apart, dozing, and was very quiet. We was four days getting out of the “upper river,” be cause we got aground so m... ...n went tearing by, and into the bunch they went, and in a sec ond out jumps four men and took out up the road as tight as they could go, two chasing ... ...aid breeches, green and black —” “Cotton velvet westcot, fire red and yaller squares —” “Leather straps to the bottoms of the breeches legs and one of... ...our traps has been here ever so long, and I’ve had supper cooked fresh about four times so as to have it hot and good when you come, till at last my p... ...you for Tom Sawyer and blessed God for sending you to me, though you told me four thousand lies and I believed every one of them like a simpleton? Cal... ...d then canting up his head sideways and fetching another howl. It was a long square, the shape of a grave; the rain had made it sink down and show the... ...nd he wouldn’t have it any other way. He actu’ly begun to come out plain and square towards trial time and acknowledge that he tried to kill the man....

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...ung folks. The two little girls, who sat on the opposite sides of a little square table in the bay-window, were both between ten and eleven years old,... ...o their own five children and to her. Mrs. Wardour had been dead for about four years, and the little girls were taught by the eldest sister, Mary, wh... ...ge. She was a little disappointed. She had once seen a carriage go by with four horses, and a single one did not seem at all worthy of her; but she ha... ...lk along the dull street, and pace round and round the gardens in Berkeley Square, was not so entertaining as morning games in the garden with Sylvia;... ...mpers up-stairs two steps at once, and runs down with a leap down the last four steps, were summarily stopped, as unladylike, and too noisy for Aunt J... ... every day?” “Oh! I don’t mean great equestrian things like the T rafalgar Square ones, or the Duke—or anything big and horrid, like Achilles in the P... ...oolishly from notice, nor putting themselves forward to claim it. Only the four sisters came up, and took their own special visitor into the midst of ... ...bout meeting them, and for the first day or two even begged to walk in the square instead of the park; and she was so good and steady with her lessons... ...from the perils of the clouds, by declaring that he wanted to make out the fourth line of an advertisement on the banks, of which he said he had made ...

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...and, spread towns and villages and forts of wooden bricks; there are steep square hills (geologically, volumes of Orr’s Cyclopaedia of the Sciences) a... ...e approaches to a central pen, from which they went down a cardboard slide four at a time, and dropped most satisfy- ingly down a brick shaft, and pit... ...ion. It was very much the same sort of place that it had been for three or four centuries. A Bromstead Rip van Winkle from 1550 returning in 1750 woul... ...kered front doors and several win- dows, and shops with shop-fronts all of square glass panes, and the place was lighted publicly now by oil lamps—pre... ...lages of Beckington, which used to be three miles to the west, and Blamely four miles to the east of Bromstead, were experiencing similar distensions ... ...he eight-eighteen for Victoria, I had a midday meal 37 H G Wells and tea; four nights a week I stayed for preparation, and often I was not back home ... ...ch I sat, a man of mean appearance with a greyish complexion, thin, with a square nose, a heavy wiry moustache and a big Adam’s apple stick- ing out b... ...earch. Almost immediately I was accosted by the leader of a little gang of four or five extremely dirty and ragged boys of assorted sizes and slouchin... ...Trinity. I’m going to look at it, experience it, think about it—and get it square with the rest of life. Career and Politics must take their chances o...

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...rs of dinner, and by the time Vogelstein’s long legs had measured three or four miles on the deck he was ready to settle himself in his sea- chair and... ...ance of Miss Day, because the event had a certain importance for this fair square Teuton; but I must pass briefly over the inci- dents that immediatel... ...f the Washington spring when the air began to show a southern glow and the Squares and Circles (to which the wide empty avenues converged according to... ... a dramatic past. The past of Alexandria appeared in the vista of three or four short streets sloping up a hill and lined with poor brick warehouses e...

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...there we took one tutor as to read: The hard-grained Muses of the cube and square Were out of season: never man, I think, So mouldered in a sinecure ... ...an, without a star, Not like a king: three days he feasted us, And on the fourth I spake of why we came, And my bethrothed. ‘Y ou do us, Prince,’ he... ... alley: then we past an arch, Whereon a woman-statue rose with wings From four winged horses dark against the stars; And some inscription ran along t... ...To dying ears, when unto dying eyes The casement slowly grows a glimmering square; So sad, so strange, the days that are no more. ‘Dear as remember... ...Y ou, likewise, our late guests, if so you will, Follow us: who knows? we four may build some plan Foursquare to opposition.’ ... ...ads: but other thoughts than Peace Burnt in us, when we saw the embattled squares, And squadrons of the Prince, trampling the flowers With clamour: ...

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...e a quibble) to the immaterial. I have here a little packet which contains four things.” He tugged it, as he spoke, and with some great dif- ficulty, ... ...with some great dif- ficulty, from the skirt pocket of his coat. “Of these four things, the first is your legal due: the little pickle money for your ... ...u but a step, and vanish like the morn- ing. The second, which is flat and square and written upon, will stand by you through life, like a good staff ... ... sometimes beat about my face and body. The tower, I should have said, was square; and in every corner the step was made of a great stone of a differe... ...untries he had visited. The shadow of poor Ransome, to be sure, lay on all four of us, and on me and Mr. Shuan in particular, most heavily. And then I... ...n a kind of ecstasy, “am I no a bonny fighter?” Thereupon he turned to the four enemies, passed his sword 63 Robert Louis Stevenson clean through eac... ...d; but of these, two fell by my hand, the two that came by the sky- light. Four more were hurt, and of that number, one (and he 64 Kidnapped not the ...

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...dge some elementary relations of geo metrical figures. The theorem that the square of the diagonal is double the square of the side— that famous disc... ... for which he has contended long ago in the Protagoras, that the virtues are four , but they are also in some sense one (Laws; compare Protagoras). So... ...I will. SOCRATES: T ell me, boy , do you know that a fig ure like this is a square? BOY : I do. SOCRATES: And you know that a square figure has these... ... a square? BOY : I do. SOCRATES: And you know that a square figure has these four lines equal? BOY : Certainly . SOCRATES: And these lines which I hav... ...nly . SOCRATES: And these lines which I have drawn through the middle of the square are also equal? BOY: Y es. SOCRATES: A square may be of any size? ... ...o of two feet, there are twice two feet? BOY : There are. SOCRATES: Then the square is of twice two feet? BOY : Y es. SOCRATES: And how many are twice... ... : Y es. SOCRATES: And how many are twice two feet? count and tell me. BOY : Four , Socrates. SOCRATES: And might there not be another square twice as... ...me doubled if we add another such line here? BOY : Certainly . SOCRATES: And four such lines will make a space containing eight feet? BOY : Y es. SOCR... ...s is the figure of eight feet? BOY : Y es. SOCRATES: And are there not these four divisions in the figure, each of which is equal to the figure of fou...

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...least he was there in time to tell his adventures to Jim while Jim did three fourths of the work. Tom’s younger brother (or rather half brother) Sid w... ...dventures of Tom Sawyer 13 dog collar — but no dog — the handle of a knife, four pieces of orange peel, and a dilapidated old window sash. He had had... ...nt Blanc is only amusement. There are wealthy gentlemen in England who drive four horse passenger coaches twenty or thirty miles on a daily line, in t... ...y beyond the reach of capture and punishment, and hastened toward the public square of the village, where two “military” companies of boys had met fo... ... was the pa tient work of two years — and a boy of German parentage had won four or five. He once recited three thousand verses without stopping; but... ...ing to take me again some time, if I’m good.” “I been to the circus three or four times — lots of times. Church ain’t shucks to a circus. There’s thin... ... murderer, and clasped his appealing hands. “No, you’ve always been fair and square with me, Muff Potter, and I won’t go back on you. There, now, that... ...ver bothered the poor. He loved ‘em. He always divided up with ‘em perfectly square.” “Well, he must ‘a’ been a brick.” “I bet you he was, Huck. Oh, h...