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The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve in an old house, a strange tale should essentially be . . .	Henry James	The Turn of the Screw
It was as if, at moments, we were perpetually coming into sight of subjects before which we must stop short, turning suddenly out of alleys that we perceived to be blind, closing with a little bang that made us look at each other--for, like all bangs, it was something louder than we had intended--the doors we had indiscreetly opened.	Henry James	The Turn of the Screw
The place, with its gray sky and withered garlands, its bared spaces and scattered dead leaves, was like a theater after the performance--all strewn with crumpled playbills.	Henry James	The Turn of the Screw
"Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what HAVE you had?"	Henry James	The Ambassadors
The right time is ANY time that one is still so lucky as to have.	Henry James	The Ambassadors
She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.	Henry James	The Ambassadors
"Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women."	Henry James	Washington Square
She ordered a cup of tea, which proved excessively bad, and this gave her a sense that she was suffering in a romantic cause.	Henry James	Washington Square
Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.	Henry James	The Portrait of a Lady
"Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet."	Henry James	The Portrait of a Lady

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