The Chaperon - Henry Jr. James - Books - 1st World Library - Literary Society - 9781595406477 - December 1, 2004
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The Chaperon

Henry Jr. James

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The Chaperon

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary. ORG - - An old lady, in a high drawing-room, had had her chair moved close to the fire, where she sat knitting and warming her knees. She was dressed in deep mourning; her face had a faded nobleness, tempered, however, by the somewhat illiberal compression assumed by her lips in obedience to something that was passing in her mind. She was far from the lamp, but though her eyes were fixed upon her active needles she was not looking at them. What she really saw was quite another train of affairs. The room was spacious and dim; the thick London fog had oozed into it even through its superior defences. It was full of dusky, massive, valuable things. The old lady sat motionless save for the regularity of her clicking needles, which seemed as personal to her and as expressive as prolonged fingers. If she was thinking something out, she was thinking it thoroughly. When she looked up, on the entrance of a girl of twenty, it might have been guessed that the appearance of this young lady was not an interruption of her meditation, but rather a contribution to it. The young lady, who was charming to behold, was also in deep mourning, which had a freshness, if mourning can be fresh, an air of having been lately put on.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released December 1, 2004
ISBN13 9781595406477
Publishers 1st World Library - Literary Society
Pages 64
Dimensions 137 × 4 × 213 mm   ·   90 g
Language English  
Contributor 1stworld Library

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