[The Death of the Lion by Henry James]@TWC D-Link bookThe Death of the Lion CHAPTER X 5/31
One would suppose it some thrilling number of _The Family Budget_.
Mrs.Wimbush, who's 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 loose 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 had announced, she was resigned to the larger latitude, her superiority to prejudice 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.
Toward evening I became conscious somehow that her superiority was contagious, and by the time the company separated for the night I was sure the larger latitude had been generally accepted.
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