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The Marriages

Henry James

200432 pagesabout 30–45 minutes
2004
first published
  • 1961New American Library · ENG
  • 1961New American Library · 364 pages · ENG
  • 2005eBooksLib · ENGISBN 9781412112031
  • 2007ReadHowYouWant.com · 92 pages · ENGISBN 9781425029074
  • 2004Kessinger Publishing · 48 pages · ENGISBN 9781419171888
  • 2007Dodo Press · 48 pages · ENGISBN 9781406526707
  • 2006Hard Press · 32 pages · ENGISBN 9781406923483

"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.

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