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Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 190 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=11mm, Gew.=286gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: Purchase of … More...

Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 190 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=11mm, Gew.=286gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE ASPERN PAPERS I Had taken Mrs. Prest into my confidence; without her in truth I should have made but little advance, for the fruitful idea in the whole business dropped from her friendly lips. It was she who found the short cut and loosed the Gordian knot. It is not supposed easy for women to rise to the large free view of anything, anything to be done; but they sometimes throw off a bold conception?such as a man wouldn't have risen to?with singular serenity. "Simply make them take you in on the footing of a lodger" ? I don't think that unaided I should have risen to that. I was beating about the bush, trying to be ingenious, wondering by what combination of arts I might become an acquaintance, when she offered this happy suggestion that the way to become an acquaintance was first to become an intimate. Her actual knowledge of the Misses Bordereau was scarcely larger than mine, and indeed I had brought with me from England some definite facts that were new to her. Their name had been mixed up ages before with one of the greatest names of the century, and they now lived obscurely in Venice, lived on very small means, unvisited, unapproachable, in a sequestered and dilapidated old palace: this was the substance of my friend's impression of them. She herself had been established in Venice some fifteen years andhad done a great deal of good there; but the circle of her benevolence had never embraced the two shy, mysterious and, as was somehow supposed, scarcely respectable Americans?they were believed to have lost in their long exile all national quality, besides being as their name implied of some remoter French affiliation?who asked no favours and desired no attention. In the early years of her residence she had made an attempt to see them, but this had been successful only a...<

ISBN: 0217599575

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ISBN: 0217599575