Author: Henry James

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-07-14

Total Pages: 536

ISBN-13: 9781331368885

Excerpt from Daisy Miller, Pandora: The Patagonia and Other Tales IT was in Rome during the autumn of 1877 5 a friend then living there but settled now in a South less weighted with appeals and memories happened to mention - which she might perfectly not have done - some simple and uninformed American lady of the previous winter, whose young daughter, a child of nature and of freedom, accompanying her from hotel to hotel, had picked up by the wayside, with the best conscience in the world, a good-looking Roman, of vague identity, astonished at his luck, yet (so far as might be, by the pair) all innocently, all serenely exhibited and introduced: this at least till the occurrence of some small social check, some interrupting incident, of no great gravity or dignity, and which I forget. I had never heard, save on this showing, of the amiable but not otherwise eminent ladies, who were n't in fact named, I think, and whose case had merely served to point a familiar moral; and it must have been just their want of salience that left a margin for the small pencil-mark inveterately signifying, in such con nexions, Dramatise, dramatise The result of my te cognising a few months later the sense of my pencil-mark was the short chronicle of Daisy Miller, which I indited in London the following spring and then addressed, with no conditions attached, as I remember, to the editor of a magazine that had its seat of publication at Philadelphia and had lately appeared to appreciate my contributions. That gentleman however (an historian of some repute promptly returned me my missive, and with an absence 0 comment that struck me at the time as rather grim -as, given the circumstances, requiring indeed some explanation: till a friend to whom I' appealed for light, giving him the thing to read, declared it could only have passed with the Phil adelphian critic for an outrage on American girlhood. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.