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By Henry James

During this vintage collision of the hot international with previous Europe, James weaves a fantasy of thwarted wish that shifts among comedy, tragedy, romance, and melodrama.

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I shall strip away layer after layer of grime— the toffee-coloured varnish and caked soot left by a lifetime of dissembling—until I come to the very thing itself and know it for what it is. My soul. My self. (When I laugh out loud like this the room seems to start back in surprise and dismay, with hand to lip. ) I kept my nerve in face of that pack of jackals from the newspapers today. Did men die because of you? ’Yes, dearie, swooned quite away. But no, no, I was superb, if I do say so myself.

I thought: she can’t be from Skryne, he would never send someone with so little self-control. After a beat of flushed silence I said softly: “In my world, there are no simple questions, and precious few answers of any kind. ” Still fixed on that paperknife, she set her lips so tightly they turned white, and gave her head a quick, stubborn little shake, and I thought, almost with fondness, of Vivienne, my sometime wife, who was the only supposedly grown-up person I ever knew who used actually to stamp her foot when she was angry.

What is my purpose here? I may say, I just sat down to write, but I am not deceived. I have never done anything in my life that did not have a purpose, usually hidden, sometimes even from myself. Am I, like Querrell, out to settle old scores? Or is it perhaps my intention to justify my deeds, to offer extenuations? I hope not. On the other hand, neither do I want to fashion for myself yet another burnished mask … Having pondered for a moment, I realise that the metaphor is obvious: attribution, verification, restoration.

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