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Wings of the Dove, Volume 1 of 2, by Henry James
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Title: The Wings of the Dove, Volume 1 of 2
Author: Henry James
Release Date: July 19, 2009 [EBook #29452]
Language: English
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THE WINGS OF THE DOVE
BY HENRY JAMES
VOLUME I
NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1902
Copyright, 1902, by
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
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Published, August, 1902
TROW DIRECTORY
PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING COMPANY
NEW YORK
BOOK FIRST
THE WINGS OF THE DOVE
I
She waited, Kate Croy, for her father to come in, but he kept her unconscionably, and there were moments at which she showed herself, in the glass over the mantel, a face positively pale with the irritation that had brought her to the point of going away without sight of him. It was at this point, however, that she remained; changing her place, moving from the shabby sofa to the armchair upholstered in a glazed cloth that gave at once--she had tried it--the sense of the slippery and of the sticky. She had looked at the sallow prints on the