endobj After a little, however, it did look rather as if they were trying to talk each other out of a faint small fear. We were sitting together on my sofa as we waited for breakfast. "If it didn't it wouldn't last. 16 0 obj<>endobj (232) Brown hung fire. ", They resumed their stroll, which evidently represented on the good Brother's part infinite agreement. How could they be so far and yet so audible? He hadn't had to talk, he hadn't had to think, he had scarce even had to feel. "Ah don't speak as if we were dead!" You stay?" "It has come to YOU then?--you've got what you wanted?" These conditions found themselves accepted, clearly, with an appreciation, with a rapture, it was rather to be called, that proceeded, as the very air that pervaded them and the force that sustained, from their quiet and noble assurance. THIS was a current so slow and so tepid that one floated practically without motion and without chill. the rich (233) succession of the others. "Oh it doesn't matter! he asked, quite unperturbed. To let them alone, these things, the new things, let them utterly alone and see if that, by chance, wouldn't somehow prove the best way to deal with them: this fancy brushed his face for a moment as a possible solution, just giving it, as so often before, a cool wave of air. What it at first had had to be for himself! "From ten to six. ", Brown's famous "thoroughness"--his great virtue--had never been so dreadful. Then it was--at the mere sight of his back, which was turned to me--that I felt the spell work. And so I remember we sat a while and looked at each other, with the final effect of my finding that I absolutely believed him. He has a wonderful head of his own and must be making of the whole thing, while we sit here patching and gossiping, something much better than ever i did. Dane kept his hand, giving it a final shake, and at that moment the sun glimmered again through the shower, but with the rain still falling on (261) the hither side of it and seeming to patter even more in the brightness. An hotel without noise, a club without newspapers--when he turned his face to what it was "without" the view opened wide. "The wild waters, you mean, of our horrible time. He might have been a week in the place--the scene of his new consciousness--before he spoke at all. There's a gap, a link missing, the great hiatus!" "Pressure of every sort IS growing!" Henry James, OM, son of theologian Henry James Sr., brother of the philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James, was an American-born author, one of the founders and leaders of a school of realism in fiction. But the faithful fighters of this hour, or the beings that then and there will represent them, may then turn to the faint-hearted, who here decline to go on, with words like those with which Henry IV. "Sacrificing the three to the one, you mean? The mere dream-sweetness of the place was superseded; it was more and more a world of reason and order, of sensible visible arrangement. ", "But everything IS. He couldn't, for that matter, easily have phrased it; it was such an abyss of negatives, such an absence of positives and of everything. Excerpt from Henry James's Preface to Volume 16, pages ix-x: During times of frustration and disappointment, he would become depressed. That was what had been most in the wise mind--the importance of the absolute sense, on the part of its beneficiaries, that what was offered was guaranteed. 20 0 obj<>endobj ). ". "And who were YOU?" (257) Into the closed and the stuffy they have to be driven. What could a man want more?". (This is James's entire comment.). AT the end of three weeks--so far as time was distinct--Dane began to feel there was something he had recovered. He faced about precisely to meet his servant and the absurd solemnity of two telegrams on a tray. Was this a threshold perhaps, after all, that could only be crossed one way? "There are things to puzzle out--otherwise it would be dull. How can it not require to be, more and more, as pressure of every sort grows?". His companion weighed it. He broke up his band for a short period in 1947 but shortly after he reorganized and was active again with his band from then until his death in 1983. There it was as sharp as possible in my imagination and my longing--there it was so utterly NOT in the fact. He saw moreover what I could take; in fact what he saw was wonderful.". We're Brothers here for the time, as in a great monastery, and we immediately think of each other and recognise each other as such; but we must have first got here as we can, and we meet after long journeys by complicated ways. ", Brown looked at him with the advantage of eighteen years of consistency. "It's a shocking thing to say, but I wish to heaven I weren't! Such an unutterable benefactor. ", "At my saying to him by the end of five minutes: 'My dear fellow, I wish you'd just try it--wish you'd for a while just BE me!' That's just the reason why what I put to him in joke--with a fantastic desperate irony--became, in his hands, with his vision of his chance, the blessed means and measure of my sitting on this spot in your company. They must return to the front sooner or later--that was certain: for each his hour would strike. Washington Square (1881) - The story of Catherine Sloper, a resident of What most prompted this reflexion was the degree in which Dane had after a while a consciousness of company. That came out in the whole manner of his reply to the appeal that broke from me: 'Where is it then in God's name? Dane, with his hands folded in his lap, took in these words of wisdom. "Isn't simplification the secret? Isn't that just why we're here? Dane, years before, had gone in for three months of hydropathy, and there was a droll echo, in this scene, of the old questions of the water-cure, the questions asked in the periodical pursuit of the "reaction"--the ailment, the progress of each, the action of the skin and the state of the appetite. ", "I don't mean for bread, though he had none too much, I think, even of that. It was part of the high style and the grand manner that there was no personal publicity, much less any personal reference. They sat there as innocently as small boys confiding to each other the names of toy animals. " To this, however, Dane demurred. He positively looked so; seeing which George Dane wondered afresh, and then in his wonder read it indeed quite as another face, quite, in a puzzling way, as another person's. “The Real Thing,” one of Henry James’s most delicate exercises in irony, is the story of a young artist’s encounter with an odd couple—a well-dressed, middle-aged, rather vacuous pair named the Monarchs, who come to his studio one day and offer themselves as … The absence of everything was, in the aspect of the Brother who had thus informally joined him--a man of his own age, tired distinguished modest kind--really, as he could soon see, but the absence of what he didn't want. Yes, that was it; he had been "off"--off, off, off. The change was that little by little his hold had grown firmer, so that he drew in the line--more and more each day--with a pull he was delighted to find it would bear. 21 0 obj[16 0 R It was the old rising tide, and it rose and rose even under a minute's watching. 11 0 obj<>endobj 18 0 obj<>endobj Dane comically sighed. "And where were you?" It WAS all right. ", "I dare say," said Dane, whom breakfast struck in fact as a pleasant alternative to opening letters. 13 0 R 9 0 R Complete summary of Henry James' The Great Good Place. That was the gossip and interchange that could pass to and fro. The young man looked at his watch. ", "Oh it's positively a part of our ease and our rest and our change, I think, that we don't at all know and that we may really call it, for that matter, anything in the world we like--the thing for instance we love it most for being. "Sure to--sure to. He should never forget, he knew, the throb of immediate (253) perception with which he first stood there, a single glance round sufficing so to show him that it would give him what for years he had desired. the Brother admitted. ", "Yes, but all such loving ones. The quiet footsteps were quiet figures; the quiet figures that, to the eye, kept the picture human and brought its perfection within reach. "I shan't mind death if it's like this," his friend replied. Their bench was like a box at the opera. I'm very sure i really wasn't. "Well, so is it that it seems to me all best to hang together. That's what's the matter with me. "We fall into the view that it must pay--that it does pay.". 14 0 R]endobj The place, the time, the way were, for those of the old persuasion, always there--are indeed practically there for them as much as ever. This Library of America volume is one of two volumes of the most extensive collection of his critical writings ever assembled, with many pieces never before available in book form. It was strange, he at last mused, but the young man was still there. ", "Yes, it's considerably more," Dane had to confess. He turned up that morning when everything had somehow got on my nerves, when the whole great globe indeed, nerves or no nerves, seemed to have appallingly squeezed itself into my study and to be bent on simply swelling there. To this anomaly his eyes slowly opened; it was not his good Brother, it was verily Brown who possessed his hand. Moreover we meet--don't we?--with closed eyes.". "Is she--a--deformed, sir?" ", The good Brother took this gently up. "You've slept all day," said the young man. That, as he analysed, remained the constant explanation: all the sweetness and serenity were created calculated things. Ah if he might NEVER again touch! ", "Not altogether--but I think it's coming. We really know none but our own. It was wonderful! It was the same with the slow footsteps that, always within earshot to the vague attention, marked the space and the leisure, seemed, in long cool arcades, lightly to fall and perpetually to recede. It would be perhaps an excuse. He had positively laid down his pen as on a sense of friendly pressure from it. ", They pulled up again at this and, facing each other, thought of it, or at any rate pretended to; for what was really in their eyes was the dread of a loss of the clue. James Henry is the pen name for James Gurbutt. 10 0 R 24 0 obj<>endobj "In everything," Dane went on. ", "Well," said George Dane, "it was a young man I had never seen--a man at any rate much younger than myself--who had written to me and sent me some article, some book. %���� Lewis’s The Jameses: A Family Narrative there is an appendix, entitled ” The Later Jameses,” which is a godsend for novelists, geneticists, and anthropologists, to name just three groups who might take an interest in what happened to the James family between the death of Henry in 1916 and 1991, the year the book was published. ", The Brother hesitated, smiling. ", "Well, we all get it. There were times when he looked up from his book to lose himself in the mere tone of the picture that never failed at any moment or at any angle. He presently laid his hand on my knee--showed me a face that the sudden great light in it had made, for me, indescribably beautiful. I was only, as the world goes, too 'beastly well'! Dane rose and looked about his room, which seemed disencumbered, different, twice as large. There had been times when he had done full justice to the way it kept him up; now, however, it was almost the worst of the avalanche. "Ah that, it seems to me, scarcely puts it. "Perhaps, better still, it will snow. "Yes, yes; wait, wait.". The obscurity was completely gone by the time he had made out that the back of a person writing at his study-table was presented to him. The occasion of it then was that one of the quiet figures he had been idly watching drew at last nearer and showed him a face that was the highest expression--to his pleased but as yet slightly confused perception--of the general charm. "Why should we call it names? "You'll feel better when you've had breakfast. "Perhaps it isn't particularly cheap.". He (255) could put his other hand on it, he could unhook it, he was once more in possession. There, for a blessing, he COULD read and write; there above all he could do nothing--he could live. ", "So have I, so I dare say has every one. What WAS the general charm? There, in its place, WAS life--with all its rage; the vague unrest of the need for action knew it again, the stir of the faculty that had been refreshed and reconsecrated. It was one of the summer sprinkles that bring out sweet smells. She had soothed him rather, the night before, in the small hours by the lamp. Such memories worked in now--all familiar reference, all easy play of mind; and among them our friends, round and round, fraternised ever so softly till, suddenly stopping short, Dane, with a hand on his companion's arm, broke into the happiest laugh he had yet sounded. He found himself anew at the window, whence, looking down from his fourth floor, he could see the vast neighbourhood, under the trumpet-blare of the sky, beginning to rush about. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of The Great Good Place. " He chanted it like a sick child and knew that for a minute Brown never moved. And he saw in my repletion and my 'renown'--deluded innocent!--what he had yearned for in vain. There was no footing on which a man who had ever liked life--liked it at any rate as HE had--could now escape it. He would have been sorry to lose that, for just this fact as yet, the blest fact of consciousness, seemed the greatest thing of all. He began to fit it together: while he had been off the young man had been on. Dane sat down to his table and stared at his ragged phrase. " Henry James (1843–1916) was a prolific storyteller who supported himself by his writing. 'THERE is a happy land--far far away!' They saw the increasing rage of life and the recurrent need, and they wondered proportionately whether to return to the front when their hour should sharply strike would be the end of the dream. Brown enquired, as if in this case she might make more. Philip Wingfield, son of the late R. D. Wingfield approves; he remarked, 'The author has captured my father's style superbly. Other journals, other periodicals of every sort, folded and in wrappers, made a huddled mound that had been growing for several days and of which he had been wearily, helplessly aware. ", "Good!" He came to my help again," Dane pursued, "when he saw I couldn't quite meet that, could at least only say that I wanted to think, wanted to cease, wanted to do the thing itself--the thing that mattered and that I was trying for, miserable me, and that thing only--and therefore wanted first of all really to SEE it again, planted out, crowded out, frozen out as it now so long had been. There were new books, also in wrappers as well as disenveloped and dropped again--books from (226) publishers, books from authors, books from friends, books from enemies, books from his own bookseller, who took, it sometimes struck him, inconceivable things for granted. And there were all sorts of freedoms--always, for the occasion, the particular right one. I saw what he could give, and he did too. ", "Why that--as in old days on Swiss lakesides--we're _en pension_. Proofreading corrections, by Sarah Koch (Skoch28879@aol.com), entered July 9, 2000. Particular cheapness certainly isn't the note we feel struck all round; but don't we fall naturally into the view that there MUST be a price to anything so awfully sane? Wingfield’s original publisher back in the 1980s. After a minute he heard him again. Dane laid his hand on his companion's arm. the Brother continued. x��1�0D�~O1e(0�ƉI�AT �,gB��@���5��&� �ǶC�h��9���ABtm-�. George Dane had opened his eyes to a bright new day, the face of nature well washed by last night's downpour and shining as with high spirits, good resolutions, lively intentions--the great glare of recommencement in short fixed in his patch of sky. The scene had whole sides that reminded and resembled, and a pleased resigned perception of these things was at once the effect and the cause of its grace. And then at something in his face, 'Would YOU, by a miracle, undertake it?' All life was lifted; I myself at least was somehow off the ground. They can always get off--the blessed houses receive. "Yet should you call it particularly dear?" It was supreme--it was everywhere. "I'm afraid you're not well, sir. I've put it to myself perhaps a little differently." It was all queer, but all pleasant and all distinct, so distinct that the last words in his ear--the same from both quarters--appeared the effect of a single voice. "I remember--I remember: seven francs a day without wine! How can I say what passed between us?--it was so strange, so swift, so much a matter, from one to the other, of instant perception and agreement. He suppressed a gasp--it was after everything. It was extraordinary how this remark fitted into his thought. "How many does SHE make, sir? Tell me without delay where it is!' This key, pure gold, was simply the cancelled list. 14 0 obj<>endobj ", "But imagine it," said Dane, laughing, "in the beloved British islands and so near as we are to Bradford! He was now to return to it after the pause of the night; but he could only look at it, for the time, over the bristling hedge of letters planted by the early postman an hour before and already, on the customary table by the chimney-piece, formally rounded and squared by his systematic servant. It was a thing of meshes; he had simply gone to sleep under the net and had simply waked up there. See all formats and editions Hide other formats and editions. ", (231) "I'm thinking--I must see. "If the place really pays it will keep on. ", "There it is. the Brother laughed. ", (247) The Brother had bent such a sympathy! ", Brown's master thought. It has GOT to last of course!" 18 0 R He had drawn in by this time, with his lightened hand, the whole of the long line, and that fact just dangled at the end. 'Oh if I could just SHIFT it all--make it straight over for an hour to other shoulders! Dane had a private practical sign for it, which, however, he had appropriated by theft--"the vision and the faculty divine." "My substitute in the world. "Oh yes; it does pay!" ", "Yes, that's the beauty; that it isn't, thank goodness, carried on only for love.". He was in the bath yet, the broad deep bath of stillness. Oh I'm not going to HER! ", "Yes," Dane happily mused; "without that--!" The mere sight of his face, the sense of his hand on my knee, made me, after a little, feel that he not only knew what I wanted but was getting nearer to it than I could have got in ten years. His therapy was to keep busy with his pen. Price New from Used from Hardcover "Please retry" $24.76 . It was the rain of the night, yet when had he last heard it? There are fewer things IN it! It meant above all that I should get off. "How many does THAT make?" Dane echoed the sigh, and, as nobody talking with nobody, they sat there together still and watched the sweet wide picture darken into tepid night. The author might remain in the obscure, for that was part of the perfection: personal service so hushed and regulated that you scarce caught it in the act and only knew it by its results. Published in 35 volumes between 1921 and 1923, it was by far the most complete collection of James… There were newspapers on another table, ranged with the same rigour of custom, newspapers too many--what could any creature want of so much news?--and each with its hand on the neck of the other, so that the row of their bodiless heads was like a series of decapitations. It ceased to be strange--it was high triumphant clearness. They come so easily here, where nothing contradicts them." It was very complicated. "To Bradford?" We don't know. "It's liberty-hall--absolutely," Dane assented. The library was a benediction--high and clear and plain like everything else, but with something, in all its arched amplitude, unconfused and brave and gay. The good Brother sighed contentedly; after which he brought out again with kindly humour: "It's a sort of kindergarten! It had been up to his shoulders last night--it was up to his chin now. * Return to "the Henry James scholar's Guide to Web Sites" *. He only meant some, but they were all who'd want it; though of these, no doubt--well, for reasons, for things that, in the world, he had observed--there would never be too many. ", "Ah yes--that's not a delusion; but perhaps the sense comes a little from our breathing an emptier medium. ", "No, thank God--that's enough," Dane contentedly smiled. He came back of course soon, came back every day; enjoyed there, of all the rare strange moments, those that were at once most quickened and most caught--moments in which every apprehension counted double and every act of the mind was a lover's embrace. After that talk with the good Brother on the bench there were other good Brothers in other places--always in cloister or garden some figure that stopped if he himself stopped and with which a greeting became, in the easiest way in the world, a sign of the diffused amenity and the consecrating ignorance. Title: The Real Thing and Other Tales Author: Henry James Release Date: February 14, 2015 [eBook #2715] [This file was first posted on July 3, 2000] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE REAL THING AND OTHER TALES*** It embodies a calculated effect, and to plunge into it, I find, even for a beguiled glance--a course I indeed recommend--is to have left all else outside. 1 0 obj<>endobj "That IS the fun," said the Brother with a sigh like soft music. A quiet presence passed somewhere--neither of them turned to look. greeted the tardy Crillon after a great victory had been gained: "Hang yourself, brave Crillon! He was so clever and haggard and hungry! 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Thus indeed, if he had wanted never again to touch, it was already done. During this minute he felt between his shoulders the gimlet of criticism. "Oh it comes--comes of itself, doesn't it, thank goodness?--just by the simple fact of finding room and time!". The sound was a groan; the plural pronoun, ANY pronoun, so mistimed. He mentioned it now as with amusement. "Oh we shall meet!". But two minutes before? "The Great Good Place" is a short story by Henry James, first published in Scribner's Magazine in 1900. "Everything's done," the young man continued. "Every man must arrive by himself and on his own feet--isn't that so? "You say you can't forget, sir; but you do forget--". (241) The Brother, as if it would do them both good, only desired to draw him out. But there were still some few confusions; Dane lay looking up. "No doubt, no doubt; and yet, thank goodness, there's love in it too." 2 0 obj<>endobj After a little, however, it did look rather as if they were trying to talk each other out of a faint small fear. We were sitting together on my sofa as we waited for breakfast. "If it didn't it wouldn't last. 16 0 obj<>endobj (232) Brown hung fire. ", They resumed their stroll, which evidently represented on the good Brother's part infinite agreement. How could they be so far and yet so audible? He hadn't had to talk, he hadn't had to think, he had scarce even had to feel. "Ah don't speak as if we were dead!" You stay?" "It has come to YOU then?--you've got what you wanted?" These conditions found themselves accepted, clearly, with an appreciation, with a rapture, it was rather to be called, that proceeded, as the very air that pervaded them and the force that sustained, from their quiet and noble assurance. THIS was a current so slow and so tepid that one floated practically without motion and without chill. the rich (233) succession of the others. "Oh it doesn't matter! he asked, quite unperturbed. To let them alone, these things, the new things, let them utterly alone and see if that, by chance, wouldn't somehow prove the best way to deal with them: this fancy brushed his face for a moment as a possible solution, just giving it, as so often before, a cool wave of air. What it at first had had to be for himself! "From ten to six. ", Brown's famous "thoroughness"--his great virtue--had never been so dreadful. Then it was--at the mere sight of his back, which was turned to me--that I felt the spell work. And so I remember we sat a while and looked at each other, with the final effect of my finding that I absolutely believed him. He has a wonderful head of his own and must be making of the whole thing, while we sit here patching and gossiping, something much better than ever i did. Dane kept his hand, giving it a final shake, and at that moment the sun glimmered again through the shower, but with the rain still falling on (261) the hither side of it and seeming to patter even more in the brightness. An hotel without noise, a club without newspapers--when he turned his face to what it was "without" the view opened wide. "The wild waters, you mean, of our horrible time. He might have been a week in the place--the scene of his new consciousness--before he spoke at all. There's a gap, a link missing, the great hiatus!" "Pressure of every sort IS growing!" Henry James, OM, son of theologian Henry James Sr., brother of the philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James, was an American-born author, one of the founders and leaders of a school of realism in fiction. But the faithful fighters of this hour, or the beings that then and there will represent them, may then turn to the faint-hearted, who here decline to go on, with words like those with which Henry IV. "Sacrificing the three to the one, you mean? The mere dream-sweetness of the place was superseded; it was more and more a world of reason and order, of sensible visible arrangement. ", "But everything IS. He couldn't, for that matter, easily have phrased it; it was such an abyss of negatives, such an absence of positives and of everything. Excerpt from Henry James's Preface to Volume 16, pages ix-x: During times of frustration and disappointment, he would become depressed. That was what had been most in the wise mind--the importance of the absolute sense, on the part of its beneficiaries, that what was offered was guaranteed. 20 0 obj<>endobj ). ". "And who were YOU?" (257) Into the closed and the stuffy they have to be driven. What could a man want more?". (This is James's entire comment.). AT the end of three weeks--so far as time was distinct--Dane began to feel there was something he had recovered. He faced about precisely to meet his servant and the absurd solemnity of two telegrams on a tray. Was this a threshold perhaps, after all, that could only be crossed one way? "There are things to puzzle out--otherwise it would be dull. How can it not require to be, more and more, as pressure of every sort grows?". His companion weighed it. He broke up his band for a short period in 1947 but shortly after he reorganized and was active again with his band from then until his death in 1983. There it was as sharp as possible in my imagination and my longing--there it was so utterly NOT in the fact. He saw moreover what I could take; in fact what he saw was wonderful.". We're Brothers here for the time, as in a great monastery, and we immediately think of each other and recognise each other as such; but we must have first got here as we can, and we meet after long journeys by complicated ways. ", Brown looked at him with the advantage of eighteen years of consistency. "It's a shocking thing to say, but I wish to heaven I weren't! Such an unutterable benefactor. ", "At my saying to him by the end of five minutes: 'My dear fellow, I wish you'd just try it--wish you'd for a while just BE me!' That's just the reason why what I put to him in joke--with a fantastic desperate irony--became, in his hands, with his vision of his chance, the blessed means and measure of my sitting on this spot in your company. They must return to the front sooner or later--that was certain: for each his hour would strike. Washington Square (1881) - The story of Catherine Sloper, a resident of What most prompted this reflexion was the degree in which Dane had after a while a consciousness of company. That came out in the whole manner of his reply to the appeal that broke from me: 'Where is it then in God's name? Dane, with his hands folded in his lap, took in these words of wisdom. "Isn't simplification the secret? Isn't that just why we're here? Dane, years before, had gone in for three months of hydropathy, and there was a droll echo, in this scene, of the old questions of the water-cure, the questions asked in the periodical pursuit of the "reaction"--the ailment, the progress of each, the action of the skin and the state of the appetite. ", "I don't mean for bread, though he had none too much, I think, even of that. It was part of the high style and the grand manner that there was no personal publicity, much less any personal reference. They sat there as innocently as small boys confiding to each other the names of toy animals. " To this, however, Dane demurred. He positively looked so; seeing which George Dane wondered afresh, and then in his wonder read it indeed quite as another face, quite, in a puzzling way, as another person's. “The Real Thing,” one of Henry James’s most delicate exercises in irony, is the story of a young artist’s encounter with an odd couple—a well-dressed, middle-aged, rather vacuous pair named the Monarchs, who come to his studio one day and offer themselves as … The absence of everything was, in the aspect of the Brother who had thus informally joined him--a man of his own age, tired distinguished modest kind--really, as he could soon see, but the absence of what he didn't want. Yes, that was it; he had been "off"--off, off, off. The change was that little by little his hold had grown firmer, so that he drew in the line--more and more each day--with a pull he was delighted to find it would bear. 21 0 obj[16 0 R It was the old rising tide, and it rose and rose even under a minute's watching. 11 0 obj<>endobj 18 0 obj<>endobj Dane comically sighed. "And where were you?" It WAS all right. ", "I dare say," said Dane, whom breakfast struck in fact as a pleasant alternative to opening letters. 13 0 R 9 0 R Complete summary of Henry James' The Great Good Place. That was the gossip and interchange that could pass to and fro. The young man looked at his watch. ", "Oh it's positively a part of our ease and our rest and our change, I think, that we don't at all know and that we may really call it, for that matter, anything in the world we like--the thing for instance we love it most for being. "Sure to--sure to. He should never forget, he knew, the throb of immediate (253) perception with which he first stood there, a single glance round sufficing so to show him that it would give him what for years he had desired. the Brother admitted. ", "Yes, but all such loving ones. The quiet footsteps were quiet figures; the quiet figures that, to the eye, kept the picture human and brought its perfection within reach. "I shan't mind death if it's like this," his friend replied. Their bench was like a box at the opera. I'm very sure i really wasn't. "Well, so is it that it seems to me all best to hang together. That's what's the matter with me. "We fall into the view that it must pay--that it does pay.". 14 0 R]endobj The place, the time, the way were, for those of the old persuasion, always there--are indeed practically there for them as much as ever. This Library of America volume is one of two volumes of the most extensive collection of his critical writings ever assembled, with many pieces never before available in book form. It was strange, he at last mused, but the young man was still there. ", "Yes, it's considerably more," Dane had to confess. He turned up that morning when everything had somehow got on my nerves, when the whole great globe indeed, nerves or no nerves, seemed to have appallingly squeezed itself into my study and to be bent on simply swelling there. To this anomaly his eyes slowly opened; it was not his good Brother, it was verily Brown who possessed his hand. Moreover we meet--don't we?--with closed eyes.". "Is she--a--deformed, sir?" ", The good Brother took this gently up. "You've slept all day," said the young man. That, as he analysed, remained the constant explanation: all the sweetness and serenity were created calculated things. Ah if he might NEVER again touch! ", "Not altogether--but I think it's coming. We really know none but our own. It was wonderful! It was the same with the slow footsteps that, always within earshot to the vague attention, marked the space and the leisure, seemed, in long cool arcades, lightly to fall and perpetually to recede. It would be perhaps an excuse. He had positively laid down his pen as on a sense of friendly pressure from it. ", They pulled up again at this and, facing each other, thought of it, or at any rate pretended to; for what was really in their eyes was the dread of a loss of the clue. James Henry is the pen name for James Gurbutt. 10 0 R 24 0 obj<>endobj "In everything," Dane went on. ", "Well," said George Dane, "it was a young man I had never seen--a man at any rate much younger than myself--who had written to me and sent me some article, some book. %���� Lewis’s The Jameses: A Family Narrative there is an appendix, entitled ” The Later Jameses,” which is a godsend for novelists, geneticists, and anthropologists, to name just three groups who might take an interest in what happened to the James family between the death of Henry in 1916 and 1991, the year the book was published. ", The Brother hesitated, smiling. ", "Well, we all get it. There were times when he looked up from his book to lose himself in the mere tone of the picture that never failed at any moment or at any angle. He presently laid his hand on my knee--showed me a face that the sudden great light in it had made, for me, indescribably beautiful. I was only, as the world goes, too 'beastly well'! Dane rose and looked about his room, which seemed disencumbered, different, twice as large. There had been times when he had done full justice to the way it kept him up; now, however, it was almost the worst of the avalanche. "Ah that, it seems to me, scarcely puts it. "Perhaps, better still, it will snow. "Yes, yes; wait, wait.". The obscurity was completely gone by the time he had made out that the back of a person writing at his study-table was presented to him. The occasion of it then was that one of the quiet figures he had been idly watching drew at last nearer and showed him a face that was the highest expression--to his pleased but as yet slightly confused perception--of the general charm. "Why should we call it names? "You'll feel better when you've had breakfast. "Perhaps it isn't particularly cheap.". He (255) could put his other hand on it, he could unhook it, he was once more in possession. There, for a blessing, he COULD read and write; there above all he could do nothing--he could live. ", "So have I, so I dare say has every one. What WAS the general charm? There, in its place, WAS life--with all its rage; the vague unrest of the need for action knew it again, the stir of the faculty that had been refreshed and reconsecrated. It was one of the summer sprinkles that bring out sweet smells. She had soothed him rather, the night before, in the small hours by the lamp. Such memories worked in now--all familiar reference, all easy play of mind; and among them our friends, round and round, fraternised ever so softly till, suddenly stopping short, Dane, with a hand on his companion's arm, broke into the happiest laugh he had yet sounded. He found himself anew at the window, whence, looking down from his fourth floor, he could see the vast neighbourhood, under the trumpet-blare of the sky, beginning to rush about. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of The Great Good Place. " He chanted it like a sick child and knew that for a minute Brown never moved. And he saw in my repletion and my 'renown'--deluded innocent!--what he had yearned for in vain. There was no footing on which a man who had ever liked life--liked it at any rate as HE had--could now escape it. He would have been sorry to lose that, for just this fact as yet, the blest fact of consciousness, seemed the greatest thing of all. He began to fit it together: while he had been off the young man had been on. Dane sat down to his table and stared at his ragged phrase. " Henry James (1843–1916) was a prolific storyteller who supported himself by his writing. 'THERE is a happy land--far far away!' They saw the increasing rage of life and the recurrent need, and they wondered proportionately whether to return to the front when their hour should sharply strike would be the end of the dream. Brown enquired, as if in this case she might make more. Philip Wingfield, son of the late R. D. Wingfield approves; he remarked, 'The author has captured my father's style superbly. Other journals, other periodicals of every sort, folded and in wrappers, made a huddled mound that had been growing for several days and of which he had been wearily, helplessly aware. ", "Good!" He came to my help again," Dane pursued, "when he saw I couldn't quite meet that, could at least only say that I wanted to think, wanted to cease, wanted to do the thing itself--the thing that mattered and that I was trying for, miserable me, and that thing only--and therefore wanted first of all really to SEE it again, planted out, crowded out, frozen out as it now so long had been. There were new books, also in wrappers as well as disenveloped and dropped again--books from (226) publishers, books from authors, books from friends, books from enemies, books from his own bookseller, who took, it sometimes struck him, inconceivable things for granted. And there were all sorts of freedoms--always, for the occasion, the particular right one. I saw what he could give, and he did too. ", "Why that--as in old days on Swiss lakesides--we're _en pension_. Proofreading corrections, by Sarah Koch (Skoch28879@aol.com), entered July 9, 2000. Particular cheapness certainly isn't the note we feel struck all round; but don't we fall naturally into the view that there MUST be a price to anything so awfully sane? Wingfield’s original publisher back in the 1980s. After a minute he heard him again. Dane laid his hand on his companion's arm. the Brother continued. x��1�0D�~O1e(0�ƉI�AT �,gB��@���5��&� �ǶC�h��9���ABtm-�. George Dane had opened his eyes to a bright new day, the face of nature well washed by last night's downpour and shining as with high spirits, good resolutions, lively intentions--the great glare of recommencement in short fixed in his patch of sky. The scene had whole sides that reminded and resembled, and a pleased resigned perception of these things was at once the effect and the cause of its grace. And then at something in his face, 'Would YOU, by a miracle, undertake it?' All life was lifted; I myself at least was somehow off the ground. They can always get off--the blessed houses receive. "Yet should you call it particularly dear?" It was supreme--it was everywhere. "I'm afraid you're not well, sir. I've put it to myself perhaps a little differently." It was all queer, but all pleasant and all distinct, so distinct that the last words in his ear--the same from both quarters--appeared the effect of a single voice. "I remember--I remember: seven francs a day without wine! How can I say what passed between us?--it was so strange, so swift, so much a matter, from one to the other, of instant perception and agreement. He suppressed a gasp--it was after everything. It was extraordinary how this remark fitted into his thought. "How many does SHE make, sir? Tell me without delay where it is!' This key, pure gold, was simply the cancelled list. 14 0 obj<>endobj ", "But imagine it," said Dane, laughing, "in the beloved British islands and so near as we are to Bradford! He was now to return to it after the pause of the night; but he could only look at it, for the time, over the bristling hedge of letters planted by the early postman an hour before and already, on the customary table by the chimney-piece, formally rounded and squared by his systematic servant. It was a thing of meshes; he had simply gone to sleep under the net and had simply waked up there. See all formats and editions Hide other formats and editions. ", (231) "I'm thinking--I must see. "If the place really pays it will keep on. ", "There it is. the Brother laughed. ", (247) The Brother had bent such a sympathy! ", Brown's master thought. It has GOT to last of course!" 18 0 R He had drawn in by this time, with his lightened hand, the whole of the long line, and that fact just dangled at the end. 'Oh if I could just SHIFT it all--make it straight over for an hour to other shoulders! Dane had a private practical sign for it, which, however, he had appropriated by theft--"the vision and the faculty divine." "My substitute in the world. "Oh yes; it does pay!" ", "Yes, that's the beauty; that it isn't, thank goodness, carried on only for love.". He was in the bath yet, the broad deep bath of stillness. Oh I'm not going to HER! ", "Yes," Dane happily mused; "without that--!" The mere sight of his face, the sense of his hand on my knee, made me, after a little, feel that he not only knew what I wanted but was getting nearer to it than I could have got in ten years. His therapy was to keep busy with his pen. Price New from Used from Hardcover "Please retry" $24.76 . It was the rain of the night, yet when had he last heard it? There are fewer things IN it! It meant above all that I should get off. "How many does THAT make?" Dane echoed the sigh, and, as nobody talking with nobody, they sat there together still and watched the sweet wide picture darken into tepid night. The author might remain in the obscure, for that was part of the perfection: personal service so hushed and regulated that you scarce caught it in the act and only knew it by its results. Published in 35 volumes between 1921 and 1923, it was by far the most complete collection of James… There were newspapers on another table, ranged with the same rigour of custom, newspapers too many--what could any creature want of so much news?--and each with its hand on the neck of the other, so that the row of their bodiless heads was like a series of decapitations. It ceased to be strange--it was high triumphant clearness. They come so easily here, where nothing contradicts them." It was very complicated. "To Bradford?" We don't know. "It's liberty-hall--absolutely," Dane assented. The library was a benediction--high and clear and plain like everything else, but with something, in all its arched amplitude, unconfused and brave and gay. The good Brother sighed contentedly; after which he brought out again with kindly humour: "It's a sort of kindergarten! It had been up to his shoulders last night--it was up to his chin now. * Return to "the Henry James scholar's Guide to Web Sites" *. He only meant some, but they were all who'd want it; though of these, no doubt--well, for reasons, for things that, in the world, he had observed--there would never be too many. ", "Ah yes--that's not a delusion; but perhaps the sense comes a little from our breathing an emptier medium. ", "No, thank God--that's enough," Dane contentedly smiled. He came back of course soon, came back every day; enjoyed there, of all the rare strange moments, those that were at once most quickened and most caught--moments in which every apprehension counted double and every act of the mind was a lover's embrace. After that talk with the good Brother on the bench there were other good Brothers in other places--always in cloister or garden some figure that stopped if he himself stopped and with which a greeting became, in the easiest way in the world, a sign of the diffused amenity and the consecrating ignorance. 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