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................................................................. 4 THE REAL THING ........................................................ 21 THE STORY OF IT ........................................................ 48 FLICKERBRIDGE ......................................................... 65 MRS. MEDWIN ............................................................. 85...

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...me Short Stories by Henry James “Brooksmith,” “The Real Thing,” “The Story of It,” “Flickerbridge,” and “Mrs. Medwin” A PENN S TATE ELECTRONIC CLASSIC... ...ICS SERIES PUBLICATION Some Short Stories by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ... salon; but I might have guessed that there was a method in his madness, a law in his success. He hadn’t hit it off by a mere fluke. There was an art ... ... day Mr Offord’s door was closed was therefore a dark date in contemporary history. It was raining hard and my umbrella was wet, but Brooksmith receiv... ... institution. A glance at the lady helped to remind me of this paradoxical law: she 22 Some Short Stories also looked too distinguished to be a “pers... ... the social system of his country. Such people as that, all convention and patent-leather, with ejaculations that stopped conversation, had no busi- n... ...te. They had bowed their heads in bewilderment to the per- verse and cruel law in virtue of which the real thing could be so much less precious than t... ...udence as that he looked all his shab- biness, all his cleverness, all his history. These different things were written in him—in his premature baldne...