I could only get on at all by taking "nature" into my confidence and my account, by treating my monstrous ordeal as a push in a direction unusual, of course, and unpleasant, but demanding, after all, for a fair front, only another turn of the screw of ordinary human virtue.
Henry JamesAbout author
- Author's profession: Writer
- Nationality: american
- Born: April 15, 1843
- Died: February 28, 1916
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