Glasses

Glasses, by Henry James
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Title: Glasses Author: Henry James Release Date: February 6, 2005 Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) [eBook #1195]
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Transcribed from the 1916 Martin Secker edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk
GLASSES
CHAPTER I
Yes indeed, I say to myself, pen in hand, I can keep hold of the thread and let it lead me back to the first impression. The little story is all there, I can touch it from point to point; for the thread, as I call it, is a row of coloured beads on a string. None of the beads are missing—at least I think they’re not: that’s exactly what I shall amuse myself with finding out. I had been all summer working hard in town and then had gone down to Folkestone for a blow. Art was long, I felt, and my holiday short; my mother was settled at Folkestone, and I paid her a visit when I could. I remember how on this occasion, after weeks in my stuffy studio with my nose on my palette, I
sniffed up the clean salt air and cooled my eyes with the purple sea. The place was full of lodgings, and the lodgings were at that season full of people, people who had ...