I do not want to be admired. I want to give, to be given, and solitude in which to unfold my possessions.

“You have been marking the passages that seem to approve of your own character.”

“It is a still stranger thing that there is nothing so delightful in the world a…”

“But what might be written in the book which had rounded its edges off in his po…”

“He looked very old. He looked, James thought, getting his head now against the …”