Confidence - Henry James - Books - 1st World Library - Literary Society - 9781421827186 - July 15, 2007
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Confidence

Henry James

Confidence

It was in the early days of April; Bernard Longueville had been spending the winter in Rome. He had travelled northward with the consciousness of several social duties that appealed to him from the further side of the Alps, but he was under the charm of the Italian spring, and he made a pretext for lingering. He had spent five days at Siena, where he had intended to spend but two, and still it was impossible to continue his journey. He was a young man of a contemplative and speculative turn, and this was his first visit to Italy, so that if he dallied by the way he should not be harshly judged. He had a fancy for sketching, and it was on his conscience to take a few pictorial notes. There were two old inns at Siena, both of them very shabby and very dirty. The one at which Longueville had taken up his abode was entered by a dark, pestiferous arch-way, surmounted by a sign which at a distance might have been read by the travellers as the Dantean injunction to renounce all hope. The other was not far off, and the day after his arrival, as he passed it, he saw two ladies going in who evidently belonged to the large fraternity of Anglo-Saxon tourists, and one of whom was young and carried herself very well.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released July 15, 2007
ISBN13 9781421827186
Publishers 1st World Library - Literary Society
Pages 296
Dimensions 140 × 216 × 17 mm   ·   376 g
Language English  
Contributor 1stworld Library

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