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The Finer Grain, by Henry James
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Title: The Finer Grain
Author: Henry James
Release Date: June 29, 2007 [EBook #21968]
Language: English
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THE FINER GRAIN
By Henry James
1910
CONTENTS
The Velvet Glove
Mora Montravers
A Round of Visits
Crapy Cornelia
The Bench of Desolation
"THE VELVET GLOVE"
I
HE thought he had already, poor John Berridge, tasted in their fulness the sweets of success; but nothing yet had been more charming to him than when the young Lord, as he irresistibly and, for greater certitude, quite correctly figured him, fairly sought out, in Paris, the new literary star that had begun to hang, with a fresh red light, over the vast, even though rather confused, Anglo-Saxon horizon; positively approaching that celebrity with a shy and artless appeal. The young Lord invoked on this occasion the celebrity's prized judgment of a special literary case; and Berridge could take the whole manner of it for one of the "quaintest" little acts displayed to his amused eyes, up to now, on the stage of European society--albeit these eyes were quite aware, in general, of missing everywhere no more of the human scene than possible, a