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...Preface: There are of course peculiar advantages as well as disadvantages in endeavouring to write the life of one recently departed. On the one hand, the remembrances connected with him are far fresher; his contemporaries can he consulted, and much can be made matter of certainty, for which a few ...

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...Excerpt: All elections begin with a bustle before beginning to describe an election in the provinces, it is proper to state that the town of Arcis-sur-Aube was not the theatre of the events here related. The arrondissement of Arcis votes at Bar-sur-Aube, which is forty miles from Arcis; consequently there is...

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...Excerpt: Florence, April 5th, 1874.--They told me I should find Italy greatly changed; and in seven-and-twenty years there is room for changes. But to me everything is so perfectly the same that I seem to be living my youth over again; all the forgotten impressions of that enchanting time come back to me. At the mo...

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...titude, and just accusations no doubt, are made against every inhabitant of this wicked world, and the fact is, that a man who is ceaselessly engaged in its trouble and turmoil, borne hither and thither upon the fierce waves of the crowd, bustling, shifting, struggling to keep himself somewhat above water--fighting for reputation, or more likely for bread, and ceaselessly ...

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...enry James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Figure in the Carpet by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Figure in the Carpet by Henry James, the Pennsylvania State... ..., publicly demand if she hadn’t been right. The party was large—there were people from outside as well, but I had never seen a table long enough to de... ...lready of opinion that he saw much further into a certain affair than most people. He was quite as fired as I had been at Bridges. He was moreover in ... ...ht of fancy, had conceived the idea of sending a “special commissioner” to India. Special commissioners had begun, in the “met- ropolitan press,” to b... ...ecome the familiar tor- ment of my days and my nights. There are doubtless people to whom torments of such an order appear hardly more natural than th... ...eker—and to see me. Think what he’ll have to tell me!” I hesitated. “About India?” “About fiddlesticks! About Vereker—about the figure in the carpet.”... ...nded as a reply to both com- munications. Those few words were in familiar French, the French of the day, which Covick often made use of to 27 Henry ...

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