[The Death of the Lion by Henry James]@TWC D-Link bookThe Death of the Lion CHAPTER IV 5/9
He doesn't read such things!" I unwarily added. "Things that are _too_ far over the fence, eh ?" I was indeed a godsend to Mr.Morrow.
It was the psychological moment; it determined the appearance of his note-book, which, however, he at first kept slightly behind him, even as the dentist approaching his victim keeps the horrible forceps.
"Mr.Paraday holds with the good old proprieties--I see!" And thinking of the thirty-seven influential journals, I found myself, as I found poor Paraday, helplessly assisting at the promulgation of this ineptitude.
"There's no point on which distinguished views are so acceptable as on this question--raised perhaps more strikingly than ever by Guy Walsingham--of the permissibility of the larger latitude.
I've an appointment, precisely in connexion with it, next week, with Dora Forbes, author of 'The Other Way Round,' which everybody's talking about.
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