"I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme." -- Henry James
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Daily Dose
From The Last September, by Elizabeth Bowen
PERSISTENTLY
"Persistently charmless, untiring in her attempts not to please, she had still to retreat, resentful, upon a female wariness, guardedness, cicumspection she always despised."
From Part Two, The Visit of Miss Norton, Chapter Six
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