 So she appeared to put it to him, with something in her lucidity that would have been infinitely touching; a strange grave calm consciousness of their common doom and of what in especial in it would be worst for herself.  The Awkward Age: A Novel - Page 288by Henry James - 1899 - 454 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Henry James - Manners and customs - 1908 - 582 pages
...originally have begun. Any one would know that now — from the terrific effect I see I produce on you by talking this way. There it is — it's all out before one knows it, is n't it, and I can't help it any more than you can, can I?" So she appeared to put it to him, with... | |
 | Martin Price - Literary Criticism - 1983 - 400 pages
...delays for months. Nanda has earlier sensed his revulsion from her modernity, as if to say to him, "I can't help it any more than you can, can I?" So...strange, grave calm consciousness of their common doom. . . . [Vanderbank sprang up] as if he had been infinitely touched . . . and there was in fact on Vanderbank's... | |
 | Henry James - Fiction - 2003 - 1054 pages
...that now—from the terrific effect I see I produce on you by talking this way. There it is—it's all out before one knows it, isn't it, and I can't...have been infinitely touching; a strange, grave, calm Sec08_LC_James_XIII_791022 10/10/02 ^-k: 10 AM Page 878 878 THE AWKWARD AGE consciousness of their... | |
 | Henry James - 2006 - 370 pages
...originally have begun. Any one would know that now - from the terrific effect I see I produce on you - by talking this way. There it is - it's all out before...it, and I can't help it any more than you can, can 11" So she appeared to put it to him, with something in her lucidity that would have been infinitely... | |
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