DOI article:
James, Henry: The death of the lion
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By Henry James 47
let me have it, through the post, by the time Paraday is well
enough to play hi's part with it. The last evidence is that her
maid did give it to his lordship's valet. One would think it was
some thrilling number of The Family Budget. Mrs. Wimbush,
who is aware of the accident, is much less agitated by it than she
would doubtless be were she not for the hour inevitably engrossed
with Guy Walsingham."
Later in the day I informed my correspondent, for whom
indeed I kept a sort of diary of the Situation, that I had made the
acquaintance of this celebrity and that she was a pretty little girl
who wore her hair in what used to be called a crop. She looked
so juvenile and so innocent that if, as Mr. Morrow hadannounced,
she was resigned to the larger latitude, her fortitude must have
come to her early. I spent most of the day hovering about Neil
Paraday's room, but it was communicated to me from below that
Guy Walsingham, at Prestidge, was a success. Towards evening
I became conscious somehow that her resignation was contagious
and by the time the Company separated for the night I was sure
that the larger latitude had been generally accepted. I thought of
Dora Forbes and feit that he had no time to lose Before dinner
I reeeived a telegram from Lady Augusta Minch. " Lord
Dorimont thinks he must have left bündle in train—inquire."
How could I inquire—if I was to take the word as a command ?
I was too worried and now too alarmed about Neil Paraday.
The doctor came back, and it was an immense satisfaction to me
to feel that he was wise and interested. He was proud of being
called to so distinguished a patient, but he admitted to me that
night that my friend was gravely ill. It was really a relapse, a
recrudescence of his old malady. There could be no question of
moving him : we must at any rate see first, on the spot, what
turn his condition would take. Meanwhile, on the morrow, he
was
let me have it, through the post, by the time Paraday is well
enough to play hi's part with it. The last evidence is that her
maid did give it to his lordship's valet. One would think it was
some thrilling number of The Family Budget. Mrs. Wimbush,
who is aware of the accident, is much less agitated by it than she
would doubtless be were she not for the hour inevitably engrossed
with Guy Walsingham."
Later in the day I informed my correspondent, for whom
indeed I kept a sort of diary of the Situation, that I had made the
acquaintance of this celebrity and that she was a pretty little girl
who wore her hair in what used to be called a crop. She looked
so juvenile and so innocent that if, as Mr. Morrow hadannounced,
she was resigned to the larger latitude, her fortitude must have
come to her early. I spent most of the day hovering about Neil
Paraday's room, but it was communicated to me from below that
Guy Walsingham, at Prestidge, was a success. Towards evening
I became conscious somehow that her resignation was contagious
and by the time the Company separated for the night I was sure
that the larger latitude had been generally accepted. I thought of
Dora Forbes and feit that he had no time to lose Before dinner
I reeeived a telegram from Lady Augusta Minch. " Lord
Dorimont thinks he must have left bündle in train—inquire."
How could I inquire—if I was to take the word as a command ?
I was too worried and now too alarmed about Neil Paraday.
The doctor came back, and it was an immense satisfaction to me
to feel that he was wise and interested. He was proud of being
called to so distinguished a patient, but he admitted to me that
night that my friend was gravely ill. It was really a relapse, a
recrudescence of his old malady. There could be no question of
moving him : we must at any rate see first, on the spot, what
turn his condition would take. Meanwhile, on the morrow, he
was