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Embarrassments, by Henry James
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Title: Embarrassments
Author: Henry James
Release Date: June 25, 2007 [EBook #21932]
Language: English
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EMBARRASSMENTS
By Henry James
1896
Contents
The Figure in the Carpet
Glasses
The Next Time
The Way it Came
THE FIGURE IN THE CARPET
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I had done a few things and earned a few pence--I had perhaps even had time to begin to think I was finer than was perceived by the patronising; but when I take the little measure of my course (a fidgety habit, for it's none of the longest yet) I count my real start from the evening George Corvick, breathless and worried, came in to ask me a service. He had done more things than I, and earned more pence, though there were chances for cleverness I thought he sometimes missed. I could only however that evening declare to him that he never missed one for kindness. There was almost rapture in hearing it proposed to me to prepare for _The Middle, the organ of our lucubrations, so called from the position in the week of its day of appearance, an article for which he had made himself responsible and of which, tied up with a stout string, he laid on my table the sub