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    The Marriages
    The Marriages
    The Marriages
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    The Marriages

    By Henry James

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    The Marriages was written in the year 1891 by Henry James. This book is one of the most popular novels of Henry James, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.

    This book is published by Booklassic which brings young readers closer to classic literature globally.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBooklassic
    Release dateJul 7, 2015
    ISBN9789635247240
    The Marriages
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    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.

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      The Marriages - Henry James

      978-963-524-724-0

      Chapter 1

      Won't you stay a little longer? the hostess asked while she held the girl's hand and smiled. It's too early for every one to go— it's too absurd. Mrs. Churchley inclined her head to one side and looked gracious; she flourished about her face, in a vaguely protecting sheltering way, an enormous fan of red feathers. Everything in her composition, for Adela Chart, was enormous. She had big eyes, big teeth, big shoulders, big hands, big rings and bracelets, big jewels of every sort and many of them. The train of her crimson dress was longer than any other; her house was huge; her drawing-room, especially now that the company had left it, looked vast, and it offered to the girl's eyes a collection of the largest sofas and chairs, pictures, mirrors, clocks, that she had ever beheld. Was Mrs. Churchley's fortune also large, to account for so many immensities? Of this Adela could know nothing, but it struck her, while she smiled sweetly back at their entertainer, that she had better try to find out. Mrs. Churchley had at least a high-hung carriage drawn by the tallest horses, and in the Row she was to be seen perched on a mighty hunter. She was high and extensive herself, though not exactly fat; her bones were big, her limbs were long, and her loud hurrying voice resembled the bell of a steamboat. While she spoke to his daughter she had the air of hiding from Colonel Chart, a little shyly, behind the wide ostrich fan. But Colonel Chart was not a man to be either ignored or eluded.

      Of course every one's going on to something else, he said. I believe there are a lot of things to-night.

      And where are YOU going? Mrs. Churchley asked, dropping her fan and turning her bright hard eyes on the Colonel.

      Oh I don't do that sort of thing!—he used a tone of familiar resentment that fell with a certain effect on his daughter's ear. She saw in it that he thought Mrs. Churchley might have done him a little more justice. But what made the honest soul suppose her a person to look to for a perception of fine shades? Indeed the shade was one it might have been a little difficult to seize—the difference between going on and coming to a dinner of twenty people. The pair were in mourning; the second year had maintained it for Adela, but the Colonel hadn't objected to dining with Mrs. Churchley, any more than he had objected at Easter to going down to the Millwards', where he had met her and where the girl had her reasons for believing him to have known he should meet her. Adela wasn't clear about the occasion of their original meeting, to which a certain mystery attached. In Mrs. Churchley's exclamation now there was the fullest concurrence in Colonel Chart's idea; she didn't say Ah yes, dear friend, I understand! but this was the note of sympathy she plainly wished to sound. It immediately made Adela say to her Surely you must be going on somewhere yourself.

      Yes, you must have a lot of places, the Colonel concurred, while his view of her shining raiment had an invidious directness. Adela could read the tacit implication: You're not in sorrow, in desolation.

      Mrs. Churchley turned away from her at this and just waited before answering. The red fan was up again, and this time it sheltered her from Adela. I'll give everything up—for YOU, were the words that issued from behind it. DO stay a little. I always think this is such a nice hour. One can really talk, Mrs. Churchley went on. The Colonel laughed; he said it wasn't fair. But their hostess pressed his daughter. Do sit down; it's the only time to have any talk. The girl saw her father sit down,

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