Four Meetings
By Henry James
()
About this ebook
Henry James
Henry James (1843–1916) was an American writer, highly regarded as one of the key proponents of literary realism, as well as for his contributions to literary criticism. His writing centres on the clash and overlap between Europe and America, and The Portrait of a Lady is regarded as his most notable work.
Read more from Henry James
The Bostonians Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Europeans Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Gothic Novel Collection Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Roderick Hudson Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Henry James: The Complete Novellas and Tales (Centaur Classics) Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Turn of the Screw Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings50 Feminist Masterpieces you have to read before you die (Golden Deer Classics) Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Golden Bowl Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The American Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Oxford Book of American Essays Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Gothic Classics: 60+ Books in One Volume Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Beast in the Jungle Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Badass Prepper's Handbook: Everything You Need to Know to Prepare Yourself for the Worst Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Bushcraft Bible: The Ultimate Guide to Wilderness Survival Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Daily Henry James: A Year of Quotes from the Work of the Master Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Greatest American Short Stories: 50+ Classics of American Literature Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Turn of the Screw and Other Short Works Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/530 Occult & Supernatural masterpieces you have to read before you die (Golden Deer Classics) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Wings of the Dove Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Italian Hours: “The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.” Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Harvard Classics: All 71 Volumes Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings50 Masterpieces of Occult & Supernatural Fiction Vol. 1 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Greatest American Short Stories (Vol. 1) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to Four Meetings
Related ebooks
Four Meetings Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Murder on the Links Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Too Close: A Novel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBetter Than the Real Thing Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Murder on the Links (Annotated) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Gipsy: A Short Story Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Murder on the Links: A Hercule Poirot Mystery (Hercule Poirot series Book 2) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Gentle Creature Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Love & Gelato Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Black Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTHE BIG LOSER: The crime classic! Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNot Without Thorns Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Model Millionaire: Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bride of Pendorric: The Classic Novel of Romantic Suspense Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Murder on the Links: A Hercule Poirot Mystery Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Queen and the King: Jess Thornton Detective, #2 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Murder on the Links: A Hercule Poirot Mystery (Warbler Classics) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBack to Joan of Arc! Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsI Don't Believe In Sundays Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWhom the Gods Destroyed Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Year in Marrakesh Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Jeanne of the Marshes Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Diary of a Man of Fifty Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMonkey Business Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHarum Scarum's Fortune Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Murder on the Links: Hercule Poirot's Case Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCandy Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Gentle Spirit Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Katherine Mansfield - The Short Stories - Volume 1 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Patagonia Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Classics For You
Warrior of the Light: A Manual Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Animal Farm: A Fairy Story Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Bell Jar: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Learn French! Apprends l'Anglais! THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY: In French and English Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Fellowship Of The Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Persuasion Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5East of Eden Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Republic by Plato Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Heroes: The Greek Myths Reimagined Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5For Whom the Bell Tolls: The Hemingway Library Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Things They Carried Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Flowers for Algernon Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Odyssey: (The Stephen Mitchell Translation) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Rebecca Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Silmarillion Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5As I Lay Dying Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5We Have Always Lived in the Castle Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Old Man and the Sea: The Hemingway Library Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Good Man Is Hard To Find And Other Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Canterbury Tales Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Confederacy of Dunces Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The New Complete Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Farewell to Arms Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hell House: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Titus Groan Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Lathe Of Heaven Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Wuthering Heights (with an Introduction by Mary Augusta Ward) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Four Meetings
0 ratings0 reviews
Book preview
Four Meetings - Henry James
Henry James
Four Meetings
EAN 8596547062103
DigiCat, 2022
Contact: DigiCat@okpublishing.info
Table of Contents
I.
II.
III.
IV.
I.
Table of Contents
The first one took place in the country, at a little tea-party, one snowy night. It must have been some seventeen years ago. My friend Latouche, going to spend Christmas with his mother, had persuaded me to go with him, and the good lady had given in our honor the entertainment of which I speak. To me it was really entertaining; I had never been in the depths of New England at that season. It had been snowing all day, and the drifts were knee-high. I wondered how the ladies had made their way to the house; but I perceived that at Grimwinter a conversazione offering the attraction of two gentlemen from New York was felt to be worth an effort.
Mrs. Latouche, in the course of the evening, asked me if I did n’t want to
show the photographs to some of the young ladies. The photographs were in a couple of great portfolios, and had been brought home by her son, who, like myself, was lately returned from Europe. I looked round and was struck with the fact that most of the young ladies were provided with an object of interest more absorbing than the most vivid sun-picture. But there was a person standing alone near the mantelshelf, and looking round the room with a small gentle smile which seemed at odds, somehow, with her isolation. I looked at her a moment, and then said, I should like to show them to that young lady.
Oh, yes,
said Mrs. Latouche, she is just the person. She doesn’t care for flirting; I will speak to her.
I rejoined that if she did not care for flirting, she was, perhaps, not just the person; but Mrs. Latouche had already gone to propose the photographs to her.
She’s delighted,
she said, coming back. She is just the person, so quiet and so bright.
And then she told me the young lady was, by name, Miss Caroline Spencer, and with this she introduced me.
Miss Caroline Spencer was not exactly a beauty, but she was a charming little figure. She must have been close upon thirty, but she was made almost like a little girl, and she had the complexion of a child. She had a very pretty head, and her hair was arranged as nearly as possible like the hair of a Greek bust, though indeed it was to be doubted if she had ever seen a Greek bust. She was artistic,
I suspected, so far as Grimwinter allowed such tendencies. She had a soft, surprised eye, and thin lips, with very pretty teeth. Round her neck she wore what ladies call, I believe, a ruche,
fastened with a