[The Awkward Age by Henry James]@TWC D-Link bookThe Awkward Age BOOK EIGHTH 4/84
"Yes--but only for a day or two.
He's coming tonight." "Good.
How delightful!" "He'll be glad to see you," Nanda said, looking at the flowers. "Awfully kind of him when I've been such a brute." "How--a brute ?" "Well, I mean not writing--nor going back." "Oh I see," Nanda simply returned. It was a simplicity that, clearly enough, made her friend a little awkward.
"Has he--a--minded? Hut he can't have complained!" he quickly added. "Oh he never complains." "No, no--it isn't in him.
But it's just that," said Vanderbank, "that makes one feel so base.
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