[The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James]@TWC D-Link bookThe Portrait of a Lady CHAPTER X 1/29
The day after her visit to Lockleigh she received a note from her friend Miss Stackpole--a note of which the envelope, exhibiting in conjunction the postmark of Liverpool and the neat calligraphy of the quick-fingered Henrietta, caused her some liveliness of emotion.
"Here I am, my lovely friend," Miss Stackpole wrote; "I managed to get off at last.
I decided only the night before I left New York--the Interviewer having come round to my figure.
I put a few things into a bag, like a veteran journalist, and came down to the steamer in a street-car.
Where are you and where can we meet? I suppose you're visiting at some castle or other and have already acquired the correct accent.
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