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The Real Thing and Other Tales

The Real Thing and Other Tales

James, Henry

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Classic FictionGeneral Fiction

ISBN10: 1514227541
ISBN13: 9781514227541
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jun 4 2015
Pages: 102
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.21 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
When the porter's wife (she used to answer the house-bell), announced A gentleman-with a lady, sir, I had, as I often had in those days, for the wish was father to the thought, an immediate vision of sitters. Sitters my visitors in this case proved to be; but not in the sense I should have preferred. However, there was nothing at first to indicate that they might not have come for a portrait. The gentleman, a man of fifty, very high and very straight, with a moustache slightly grizzled and a dark grey walking-coat admirably fitted, both of which I noted professionally-I don't mean as a barber or yet as a tailor-would have struck me as a celebrity if celebrities often were striking. It was a truth of which I had for some time been conscious that a figure with a good deal of frontage was, as one might say, almost never a public institution.

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