The Finer Grain

The Finer Grain

[Transcribers Note: After posting it was discovered that there were several missing pages from the section titled Mora Montravers. This section has been removed and will be replaced as soon as possible.] HE thought he had already, poor John Berridge, tasted in their fulness the sweets of success; but nothing yet had been more charming to him than when the young Lord, as he irresistibly and, for greater certitude, quite correctly figured him, fairly sought out, in Paris, the new literary star that had begun to hang, with a fresh red light, over the vast, even though rather confused, Anglo-Saxon horizon; positively approaching that celebrity with a shy and artless appeal. The young Lord invoked on this occasion the celebritys prized judgment of a special literary case; and Berridge could take the whole manner of it for one of the quaintest little acts displayed to his amused eyes, up to now, on the stage of European societyalbeit these eyes were quite aware, in general, of missing everywhere no more of the human scene than possible, and of having of late been particularly awake to the large extensions of it spread before him (since so he could but fondly read his fate) under the omen of his prodigious hit. It was because of his hit that he was having rare opportunitiesof which he was so honestly and humbly proposing, as he would have said, to make the most: it was because every one in the world (so far had the thing gone) was reading The Heart of Gold as just a slightly too fat volume, or sitting out the same as just a fifth-act too long play, that he found himself floated on a tide he would scarce have dared to show his favourite hero sustained by, found a hundred agreeable and interesting things happen to him which were all, one way or another, affluents of the golden stream. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 21968
Author: James, Henry
Release Date: Jun 29, 2007
Format: eBook
Language: English